Selected Poems by Evgeny Rein
Rein is an elegiac poet. His main theme is the end of things, the end, to put it more broadly, of a world order that is dear - or at least acceptable- to him. The incarnation of this order in his poetry is the city in which he grew up, and the city of Leningrad.
Born in 1935, Evgeny Rein belongs to that tragic generation of Russian poets who for decades went unpublished in the Soviet Union, and didn’t publish his first book of poems until he was 49. One of Akhmatova’s ‘magic choir’ of young Leningrad poets, he was Joseph Brodsky’s mentor and lifetime friend. Brodsky figures in many of his poems, and Brodsky’s essay on Rein introduces his Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2001), a Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781852245238 |
| ISBN 10 | 1852245239 |
| Title | Selected Poems |
| Author | Evgeny Rein |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2001-05-24 |
| Number of pages | 176 |
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