Mirror Sand

<p>Edited translated and introduced by Anatoly Kudryavitsky this bilingual anthology presents Russian short poems of the last half-century. It showcases thirty poets from Russia and displays a variety of works by authors who all come from different backgrounds.</p><p>Some of them are well-known not only locally but also internationally due to festival appearances and translations into European languages; among them are Gennady Aigi Gennady Alexeyev Vladimir Aristov Sergey Biryukov Konstantin Kedrov Igor Kholin Viktor Krivulin Vsevolod Nekrasov Genrikh Sapgir and Sergey Stratanovsky.</p><p>The next Russian poetic generation also features prominently in the collection. Such poets as Tatyana Grauz Dmitri Grigoriev Alexander Makarov-Krotkov Yuri Milorava Asya Shneiderman and Alina Vitukhnovskaya are the ones Russians like to read today.</p><p>This anthology shows Russia looking back at itself and reveals the post-World-War Russian reality from the perspective of some of the best Russian creative minds. Here we find a poetry of dissent and of quiet observation of fierce emotions and of deep inner thoughts.</p>