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This comprehensive collection of the world-renowned poet's verse spans Yevtushenko's entire poetic life. Amazing in its thematic range and stylistic breadth, his poetry "leaps continents and covers war and peace, intolerance and human striving . . . a passionate and essential edition of his collected poems" ( The New York Times). ... Read more

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Four decades of talent.
This 650-plus page volume does not cover the entire poetic work of Yevgeny Yevtushenko until 1990, but it comes close. Not all his collected poems are here, either: selections from from "Bratsk Station" and excerptsfrom long poems such as "Under the Skin of the Statue of Liberty"and "Ivan the Terrible and Ivan the Fool" reduce a bit the scopethat we are presented with, although not the quality. His most memorablepoems are here and the translation is excellent. What I like the most aboutYevtushenko is that he is capable of writing good, even great poetry, froman absolutely opposite perspective to mine. He was, for most of his life, aconvinced socialist, a man who really believed in the "humanface" of socialism and even in that catchy word"internationalism" that the old autocrats in the Kremlin liked somuch. Life seems to have made it very plain to him that the dream hadalways been a nightmare. But his poems are still here and one of thereasons why Yevtushenko hasn't been swept away like many of the so-calledpoets who sang for the Soviet regime, is that he never did that. Hebelieved in socialism, but he could write "Russian Tanks inPrague" and tell the truth about the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakiain 1968. A very long poem, included in this collection, is "A Dove inSantiago: A Novella in Verse," where he attempts to understand andexplain, from a socialist point of view, the events in Chile, 1973. Hefails, but he is not the first one to get it wrong (most non-Chileans havegotten it wrong) and he, at least, does it with a lot of talent. I don'tagree with Yevtushenko's socialism, but I can't help liking his poetry."Babii Yar," also included in this book, is an ode to the Jewsmurdered by the nazis in a ravine, and violated a second time by theSoviets who covered up the crime because the Moscow government was deeplyantisemitic. Yevtushenko writes about all this. He writes an elegy for NewYork and starts one of his poems with the verse "Moscow believed mytears..." This is a versatile poet, a man who has visited places andhas the talent to tell us his version of what he has seen in an original,beautiful manner. Yevtushenko is far more accessible than some of the moremodern Russian poets, but accessibility does not mean less quality. On thecontrary, his poetry is clear, honest, passionate, direct, and articulate.My only regret regarding this volume is the absence of my favorite poem byYevtushenko: "On the Death of a Dog." Other than that, his talentshines through this compact, affordable book, with poems such as "TheCity of Yes and the City of No," "Stolen Apples,""White Nights in Archangel," "Zima Junction," "TheHeirs of Stalin," "Requiem for Challenger," etc. As soon asthe book becomes available, buy it: you won't regret it. ... Read more

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December 1972PLAYMATE: Mercy RooneyCOVER: Coca Cola style gala Christmas IssuePICTORIALS: Sex Stars of 1972features Victoria Principal, Ali McGraw, Cybill Shepherd, Liza Minelli, Raquel Welch, Jane Fonda, Jill St. John, Joey Heatherton, Stella Stevens, Liv Lindeland, Barbara Hershey and others; Women Eternal is a seven page collection of some zoftig nudes by painter Martin Hoffman; A Strtling Astarte is a six page portfolio of the Joffrey Ballet's Nancy Robinson, shot be photographer Herbert Migdoll INTERVIEW: Yevgeny YevtushenkoFEATURES: Fiction by Bernard Malamud, The Silver Crown; poetry by Lawrence Durell and Robert Graves; essay by Ray Bradbury,From Stonehenge to Tranquility Base; Richard Rhodes on The Missippi; parody by Woody Allen, Match Wits With Inspector Ford;symposium, Power!with panelists Murray Kempton, Ralph Nader, Robert Townsend, Robert Evans; quasi mamoir by Kingley Amis, Who Or What Was It?; 2-page Vargas Girl.PAGES: 346 ... Read more

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A moral voice and a poet worth reading
Yevtushenko's sympathetic identification with Jewish pain and suffering in his 'Babi Yar' make him to my mind a moral voice and a poet worth reading. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: Евге́ний Алекса́ндрович Евтуше́нко) (also transliterated as Evgenii Alexandrovich Evtushenko, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, or Evgeny Evtushenko) (born 18 July 1933) is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films. "Yevtushenko's politics have always been a complicated mixture of bravery, populism, and vulgar accommodation with dictatorship." Judith Colp of The Washington Times, for example, described Yevtushenko as "his country's most controversial modern poet, a man whose reputation is poised between courageous behind-the-scenes reformer and failed dissident." ... Read more

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Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Marina Tsvetaeva, Anna Akhmatova, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Musa Cälil, Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev, Bulat Okudzhava, Sergey Mikhalkov, Qaysin Quli, Samuil Marshak, Korney Chukovsky, Pavlo Tychyna, Valery Bryusov, Avetik Isahakyan, Konstantin Simonov, Yelizaveta Tarakhovskaya, Pavel Filonov, Valentin Parnakh, Yanka Kupala, Itzik Feffer, Mariya Petrovykh, Srul Bronshtein, Bella Akhmadulina, Petrus Brovka, Gevorg Emin, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Mikhail Mikhalkov, Agniya Barto, Olga Bergholz, Igor Nikolayev, Andrey Voznesensky, Mikhail Arkadyevich Svetlov, Yuri Vizbor, Boris Chichibabin, Yulia Drunina, Roman Kudlyk, Dmitri Kedrin, Alexander Prokofyev, Moyshe Kulbak, Aleksei Kruchenykh, Ğädel Qutuy, Gennady Shpalikov, Boris Zakhoder, Sasha Krasny, Rasul Gamzatov, Aleksandr Drakokhrust, Aleksandr Eiduk, Yvan Kyrlya, Leib Kvitko, Hamza Hakimzade Niyazi, Samad Vurgun, Ivan Mavrodi, Vera Inber, Anatoly Kasheida, Yevgeniy Dolmatovsky, Alexander Sukhanov, Sergey Yeremeyev, Mykola Bazhan, Mikhas Klimkovich, Pavel Kogan, Maksym Rylsky, Maxim Tank, Mart Raud, David Nikitich Kugultinov, Boris Kornilov, Aman Kekilov, War Generation of Russian Poets. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Yevtushenko (Russian: ) (also transliterated as Evgenii Alexandrovich Evtushenko, Yevgeniy Yevtushenko, or Evgeny Evtushenko) (born July 18, 1933) is a Soviet and Russian poet. He is also a novelist, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter, actor, editor, and a director of several films. He was born Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Gangnus (later he took his mother's last name, Yevtushenko) in the Irkutsk region of Siberia in a small town called Zima Junction on 18 July, 1933 to a peasant family of mixed Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar heritage. "His great-grandfather, Joseph Yevtushenko, a susp...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=531887 ... Read more

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This digital document, covering the life and work of Yevgeny (Alexandrovich) Yevtushenko, is an entry from Contemporary Authors, a reference volume published by Thompson Gale. The length of the entry is 2811 words. The page length listed above is based on a typical 300-word page. Although the exact content of each entry from this volume can vary, typical entries include the following information:

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