Yevtushenko: Selected Poems Paperback / softback
by Yevgeny Yevtushenko
Paperback / softback
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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. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow.
Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and ‘Birthday’, on a mother’s concern for her son, while ‘Encounter’ depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. ‘The Companion’ and ‘Party Card’ show war from a child’s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko’s famous poem, ‘Babiy Yar’, is an angry exposé of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:26/06/2008
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- ISBN:9780140424775
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:96 pages
- Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd
- Publication Date:26/06/2008
- Category:
- ISBN:9780140424775