Contents
List of Collaborators
Introduction
Verse from GIRLFRIEND
Your narrow, foreign shape
Poems
I know the truth
What is this gipsy passion for separation
We shall not escape Hell
Some ancestor of mine
I’m glad your sickness
We are keeping an eye on the girls
No one has taken anything away
You throw back your head
Where does this tenderness come from?
Bent with worry
Today or tomorrow the snow will melt
VERSES ABOUT MOSCOW
from INSOMNIA
POEMS FOR AKHMATOVA
POEMS FOR BLOK
A kiss on the head from SWANS’ ENCAMPMENT
Yesterday he still looked in my eyes
To Mayakovsky
ON A RED HORSE
Praise to the Rich
God help us Smoke!
Ophelia: In Defence of the Queen from WIRES
Sahara
The Poet vii ix
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