The Blue Lagoon: Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry/2B

by Konstantin K. Kuzminsky

Release Date: June, 1986

Edition: Hardcover

Price:

More Info

Monumental!

This monumental 9 volume anthology (in Russian, each volume is between 600 to 800 pages) was created by Russian poet enfante terrible K. K. Kuzminsky and Gregory Kovalev. Kuzminsky and his wife Emma Podberiozkina conceived and carried out this project virtually by themselves - everything from typing up texts, scanning numerios photos of poets, artists and their paintings & graphic art (each volume is brimming with visual material). Unlike _any other_ anthologiest of Russian poetry, Kuzminsky includes numerous pesonal accounts and anecdotes related to authors included in the anthology. A monument to poets and artists forgotten and forbidden, a counter-arguement to Brodsky, Yevtushenko and Voznesensky, this work is for those people who would like to see the entire forest of Russian poetry, not just the trees. See www.geocities.com/blvol1/soderzh.htm for exerpts from the first 2 volumes of anthology (In Russian only)