Yevtushenko Selected Poems

This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. �Zima Junction� vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in �Waking�, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and �Birthday�, on a mother�s concern for her son, while �Encounter� depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. �The Companion� and �Party Card� show war from a child�s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko�s famous poem, �Babiy Yar�, is an angry exposé of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.