Russian-English bilingual edition. Translated by Robert Reid, Daniel Weissbort & Carol Rumens / Yuri Drobyshev. Born in 1935, Evgeny Rein belongs to that tragic generation of Russian poets who for decades went unpublished in the Soviet Union. One of

Evgeny Rein: Elegiac Urbanist

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Joseph Brodsky

Evgeny Rein: A New Russian Poete Maudit

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Lev Loseff

Introduction

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Valentina Polukhina

Bibliography

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PART I

from The Names of the Bridges (1984)

Signature for a torn portrait

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In memory of the Vitebsk Canal in Leningrad

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`To add to our farewell...'

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from A Shore Line (1989)

The Monastery

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Night in Komarovo

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The raven

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Port building

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from The Darkness of Mirrors (1990)

Jim

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Breakfast on the balcony

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The poet's house

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Fountain

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`The sax, the Jap...'

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1950

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Cambridge

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Light from the East

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from A Little Boot (1995)

The Isle of Ladzaretto

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At the Modigliani Exhibition

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Cats in the ruins of Ancient Rome

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Florence

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`You were never here...'

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Narcotics

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from A Balcony (1998)

``I stepped out onto the balcony...'

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Vilna

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`By-ways intersecting, a dilapidated colonnade...'

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Terioki

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Russian Poetry Week in Belgium

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`Sauntering gently from Mikhail to Anna...'

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In Memory of A.T.

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Before Easter

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Reflection on the cat Timur

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Nevsky

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`Thunder, Moscow...'

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On the 12.50 a.m. train

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Peredelkino

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`You walk across a frozen stream...'

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Exegi Monumentum

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PART II

Poems to Joseph Brodsky (from various collections)

Ararat

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In a Northern village, out in the sticks

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In Pavlovsk Park

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`The Summer Garden...'

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Letter to New England

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Venetian cat

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The Academia Quay

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Florian

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Voice

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`Forgive me...'

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`Crags of water-seasoned oak...'

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`New Jersey, Ironia...'

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Fondamenta Degli Incurabili

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`A little crowded place on Bleeker...'

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May 24th

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The Office

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To the author of ``Urania''

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Notes on the Editor and Translators

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