After Pushkin

This anthology presents English-language versions of, and responses to, poems by Alexander Pushkin, made by contemporary poets rather than by a single scholarly translator. Contributors include figures such as Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Carol Ann Duffy, Louise Glück, and others, working from Pushkin's lyrics, narratives, and shorter pieces. Some texts stay close to the Russian sense; others are freer imitations. The volume is arranged as an encounter with Pushkin's range-love, exile, the poet's role, Russian history-in late-twentieth-century English verse. It is a book of translations and after-poems, not a biography or a complete Pushkin.

Bound in light blue cloth blocked with poets' names. Dark blue slipcase.