Russian poetry

Book Review: A Life of Russian Poet Osip Mandelstam — “An Attenuated Voice of Freedom”

May 25, 2023
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The biography is a workmanlike introduction, valuable because it brings a measured understanding to Osip Mandelstam’s life and poetry as well as to the horrific decades he lived through.

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Poetry Review: “Black Earth” — The Irresistible Appeal of Poet Osip Mandelstam

August 13, 2021
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Russian poet Osip Mandelstam’s “ancient language” is rendered into real contemporary poetry in English that succeeds in speaking eloquently to the inner eye and ear.

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Book Review: “Time of Gratitude” — The Quiet Happiness of Being Unnecessary

December 12, 2017
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Russian poet Gennady Aygi wrote as an outsider, an ethnic outlier as well as a free-verse stylist of his generation.

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Poetry Review: Translations of Two Wild Russian Poets, Their Flair Restored

May 14, 2014
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New translations of Soviet-era poets Vladimir Mayakovsky and Vladislav Khodasevich ask us to restore them to their rightful places in Russian and international literature .

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