Five Poems

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Vladimir Gandelsman
Olga Livshin
Andrew Janco

Abstract

Vladimir Gandelsman was born in 1948 in Leningrad. His poetry written
during the Soviet period was intended for the literary underground. After
coming to the United States in 1991, he was first able to publish his work, and
is now highly acclaimed in Russia, where he won the Moscow Reckoning
Prize, the highest award for poetry, in 2011. He lives outside New York City.
He is the author of eighteen poetry collections, one verse novel, several
important translations into Russian that include Macbeth, and a volume of
collected works. In English translation, his works have been published in or
are forthcoming from Modern Poetry in Translation, The Common, The
Notre Dame Review, and The Mad Hatters’ Review.

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