Mikhail Aizenberg’s poems articulate a personal response from the perspective of countercultural alternatives to the erratic climate of the political global warming of Russia’s past two decades. When the cultural history of Russia’s turn to the twenty-first century is written, the epigraphs will be drawn from Aizenberg’s poetry.
Mikhail Aizenberg: Architect, poet, essayist. Born 1948, Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in 1972, he has been writing poems since the mid 1960s. Poet and literary translator. Alone and in collaboration, Kates has translated six books of poetry from French, Spanish and Russian, including poems by Tatiana Shcherbina, The Score of the Game (Zephyr,2002) He also edited In the Grip of Strange Thoughts (Zephyr Press, 1999).