yevtushenko, yevgeny aleksandrovich

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Each entry contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Former soccer star Lyza, her lover Boat, special investigator Palchikov, poet Antonina Korzinkina, and Yevtushenko himself work to keep Russia's fragile democracy alive in the face of the efforts of hard-line Communists to destroy it. Includes the historical figures of Gorbachev, Shevardnadze, and Yeltsin among the cast of characters.

Our anxieties, poems 1953-1959 -- Conversation with an American writer, poems 1960-1962 -- People were laughing, poems 1963-1965 -- The City of "yes" and the city of "no".

Poems translated from the Russian. A collection of poetry representing Yevtushenko's entire poetic works.