| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xiv, 539 pages ; 24 cm |
| Note |
"Poems written in English and poems translated from the original Russian by or with the author, including translations by Jonathan Aaron [and others] ; edited by Ann Kjellberg"--Preliminary page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 505-506) and index. |
| Contents |
A Part of Speech -- Six Years Later -- Anno Domini -- Autumn in Norenskaia -- "A second Christmas by the shore" -- Homage to Yalta -- A Song to No Music -- The End of a Beautiful Era -- Lithuanian Divertissement -- On Love -- I Sit by the Window -- Nature Morte -- December 24, 1971 -- To a Tyrant -- The Funeral of Bobo -- Letters to a Roman Friend -- Nunc Dimittis -- Odysseus to Telemachus -- "An autumn evening in the modest square" -- 1972 -- In the Lake District -- The Butterfly -- Torso -- Lagoon -- "The classical ballet, let's say, is beauty's keep" -- On the Death of Zhukov -- Mexican Divertimento -- The Thames at Chelsea -- A Part of Speech -- Lullaby of Cape Cod -- December in Florence -- In England -- Plato Elaborated -- Letters from the Ming Dynasty -- The Rustle of Acacias -- Elegy: For Robert Lowell -- Strophes -- San Pietro -- Gorbunov and Gorchakov -- To Urania -- May 24, 1980 -- To a Friend: In Memoriam -- October Tune -- A Polar Explorer -- Lithuanian Nocturne -- Twenty Sonnets to Mary Queen of Scots -- North Baltic -- The Berlin Wall Tune -- Dutch Mistress -- Allenby Road -- The Fifth Anniversary -- Polonaise: A Variation -- The New Jules Verne -- Lines on the Winter Campaign, 1980 -- Cafe Trieste: San Francisco -- The Hawk's Cry in Autumn -- Sextet -- Minefield Revisited -- Near Alexandria -- Tsushima Screen -- A Martial Law Carol -- Folk Tune -- Roman Elegies -- To Urania -- The Bust of Tiberius -- Seven Strophes -- The Residence -- Eclogue IV: Winter -- Eclogue V: Summer. |
| Summary |
This volume gathers the four major books published in English by the Soviet exile, Nobel Prize winner, and U.S. Poet Laureate along with a handful of previously uncollected poems and translations. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century.
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Russian poetry -- Translations into English.
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Russian poetry. (OCoLC)fst01102394
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Translations. (OCoLC)fst01423791
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| Added Author |
Kjellberg, Ann.
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| Added Title |
Poems. Selections
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| ISBN |
0374125457 (alk. paper) |
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9780374125455 (alk. paper) |
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