Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems 1960-1987 (First American Edition)

Aleksandr Kushner (author); Paul Graves; Carol Ueland (translators); Joseph Brodsky (introduction);

ISBN 10: 0374105499 / ISBN 13: 9780374105495

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 1991

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First printing of the first American edition. A fine copy in a fine jacket. A clean copy with price ($19.95) intact on front flap. Comes with archival-quality jacket protector.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Apollo in the Snow: Selected Poems 1960-1987 (First American Edition)
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York
• Publication Date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0374105499
• ISBN 13: 9780374105495
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poetry

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Synopsis

Writing in a society centered on social ritual, Kushner has always celebrated the refuge of private life. His is often a sort of chamber poetry, contained and contemplative. This gathering of more than sixty poems, from Kushner's first collection of 1962 through the present, traces the poet's development and range.

Reviews

A stoic witness to the enormities of history and day-to-day survival, Russian lyric poet Kushner writes with the pulsing immediacy of Boris Pasternak and the self-contained composure of Anna Akhmatova. Even up in heaven, suspects this product of icy Leningrad, "we will find winter . . . all sounds canceled, stilled by total peace." With jolting symbolism, he rages at poet Osip Mandelstam's disappearance in a labor camp ("Mozart's skull, from between two columns of the news, calmly eyed us"). Kushner, born in 1936, is a deeply cultured yet down-to-earth poet who puts a contemporary spin on classical rhymes and meters. His achingly poignant lyrics give palpable form to love's wrenching separations, the omnipresence of death, the elusive search for a pattern in our lives.
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