Yevtushenko: Selected Poems
This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. aZima Junctiona vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in aWakinga, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and aBirthdaya, on a motheras concern for her son, while aEncountera depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. aThe Companiona and aParty Carda show war from a childas eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenkoas famous poem, aBabiy Yara, is an angry exposAc of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.So emerged this small book, costing atthe time half-a-crown (now twelve and ahalf pence);the royalties, aftera three-way split, came out atthreefarthings (less than half a decimal penny) eachper copy. Appropriately, there soon seemed tobe anbsp;...
| Title | : | Yevtushenko: Selected Poems |
| Author | : | Yevgeny Yevtushenko |
| Publisher | : | Penguin UK - 2008-06-26 |
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