An anthology of representative works by forty-four living Russian poets, born after 1945, features contributions from such writers as Igor Irteniev, Marianna Geide, Anna Russ, and Booker Prize winner Sergey Gandlevsky, among others, and includes many works never before published in the West

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Evgeny Bunimovich (1954) made his debut as a poet in Russia in 1990. In his poetry, Bunimovich observes his everyday surroundings in a mathematical fashion in order to arrive at reflections on himself and on Russia. Bunimovich began his career as a teacher and mathematician. In 1981, he became president of the Club of Independent Poets, which was shut down on the orders of the Communist Party. He took up a seat in the Moscow city parliament for the Western-oriented opposition party Yabloko ('The Apple') and is also the organiser of the International Festival of Poets in Moscow. In recent years, his work has been translated into French, Dutch, Swedish, German, English and Arabic.

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Prominent Moscow poet Evgeny Bunimovich selected representative work from forty-four living Russian poets born after 1945 to be translated and published in this bilingual edition. The collection ranges from the mordant post-Soviet irony of Igor Irteniev to the fresh voices of poets like Marianna Geide and Anna Russ -- young women just beginning to make themselves heard. The book includes the work of Booker Prize winner Sergey Gandlevsky and several winners of the Andrey Bely Prize and Brodsky Fellowships. Most of these poems, and many of the poets, have previously been unpublished in the West.