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 Most of these poems, and many of the poets, have previously been unpublished in the West."Kibirov has a special talent for balancing between the optimistic, straightforward, and simple Soviet ‘romanticism’, literary romanticism … and an individual human existence lost and devaluated." - Marina Grishakova, Timur Kibirov’s Poetry in the Official Culture"[Elena Shvarts] is a prolific, compelling poet who mixes the skepticism of post-modern sensibilities with the haunted primitivism of ancient Slavic folk belief." - poetrymagazines.org.uk"[Sergey Gandlevsky] is a poet of hard-won clarities, of classical formal concision combined with vernacular swagger. Gandlevsky, with his pugilist stance and lyric heart, is a major discovery." - David Wojahn"'Prolific' is the word that springs to mind when one thinks about the opus and personality of Dmitry Bykov." - Victor Sonkin, Moscow Times Read Less