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First published as Selected Poems in 1971 by Oxford University Press Revised, enlarged and reissued 1981, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2009 This revised and enlarged sixth edition published in 2023 by Carcanet Press Limited Alliance House Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ Selection, translations and notes copyright © Elaine Feinstein 1971, 1981, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2009, 2023 Introduction and bibliography copyright © Elaine Feinstein 2009 The right of Elaine Feinstein to be identified as the editor and translator of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988 All rights reserved A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978 1 80017 227 2 The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter
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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 3 4 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 33 38 41 48 49 51 53 54 61 63 64 65 73 75

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First published as Selected Poems in 1971 by Oxford University Press

Revised, enlarged and reissued 1981, 1986, 1993, 1999, 2009 This revised and enlarged sixth edition published in 2023 by

Carcanet Press Limited

Alliance House Cross Street Manchester M2 7AQ

Selection, translations and notes copyright © Elaine Feinstein 1971, 1981,

1986, 1993, 1999, 2009, 2023

Introduction and bibliography copyright © Elaine Feinstein 2009

The right of Elaine Feinstein to be identified as the editor and translator of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the

Copyright, Designs and Patents Act of 1988

All rights reserved

A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

ISBN 978 1 80017 227 2

The publisher acknowledges financial assistance from Arts Council England

Typeset by XL Publishing Services, Tiverton Printed and bound in England by SRP Ltd, Exeter

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