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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

Bilingual edition

Hardback (09 Jan 2014) | English,Russian

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Publisher's Synopsis

And yet in finding a way out-and outliving many of his contemporaries-Khodasevich was nearly erased from the tumultuous literary history of Russia's long twentieth century. The publication of his Selected Poems is an essential and long-overdue tribute to this extraordinarily gifted poet. Born in 1886, Khodasevich came of age among the famed avant-gardists of Russian poetry, but unlike the major modernists of the age-the Symbolists and the Futurists among them-he sought inspiration neither in esoteric doctrines, nor in grand pronouncements. Instead, he was determined to find meaning in the world, and each of his poems reflects this tireless, often heroic, sometimes deeply bitter engagement with his surroundings. An innovative classicist in an era taken in by relentless experimentation, Khodasevich was hailed by many of his peers in the Soviet Union and Berlin, including Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote that Khodasevich would "remain the pride of Russian poetry as long as its last memory lives." Brilliantly translated by Peter Daniels, and with a richly informed introduction by Michael Wachtel, Selected Poems is a stunning confirmation of that assessment.

Book information

ISBN: 9781468308105
Publisher: The Overlook Press
Imprint: The Overlook Press
Pub date:
Edition: Bilingual edition
DEWEY: 891.713
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English,Russian
Number of pages: 190
Weight: 385g
Height: 224mm
Width: 148mm
Spine width: 22mm