Book description
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 expos of the
Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.
Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-) is a Russian poet, essayist, dramatist,
screenwriter and actor.
Translated with an introduction by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter
Levi, S. J.
