Crossing Centuries The New Generation in Russian Poetry

"Synthesizing the Herculean efforts of a variety of well-regarded translators, poets, scholars, and critics, CROSSING CENTURIES, more samizdat than festschrift, is ostensibly concerned to document the transformations of Soviet Russian poetry that have taken place over the course of the last fifty years: the years of Brezhnev and Gorbachev. In many respects, the editors of CROSSING CENTURIES have achieved this very task, making for a timely, ambitious, and perceptive, if somewhat staid, anthology. Both the foreground and background to the style and flavor of Soviet Russian poetry in the 1970s and 1980s is given lucid and detailed explication; this explication, in turn, is complemented by a healthy offering of politically charged and formally adventurous verse."High, John is the author of 'Crossing Centuries The New Generation in Russian Poetry' with ISBN 9781883689896 and ISBN 1883689899.