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A Million Premonitions

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Reaching back as far as medieval Rus and as far forward as metrical and linguistic innovation permit, Sosnora has written with a voice unique and wideranging. Historical allusion, conscious anachronism, humor, and intensity of word play dominate by turns his range of verse.

Viktor Sosnora was born in 1936 in the Crimea. He is known as one of the most consistently experimental of Russian poets, and one of the foremost translators, into Russian, of Catullus, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and Allen Ginsberg.

Mark Halperin teaches at Central Washington University. His latest book of poems, The Measure of Islands, was published by Wesleyan.

Dinara Georgeoliani is a linguist and Assistant Professor of Russian at Central Washington University.

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Price: $12.95
Pages: 144
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Imprint: Zephyr Press
Series: In the Grip of Strange Thoughts
Publication Date: 01 May 2004
Trim Size: 8.00 X 5.30 in
ISBN: 9780939010769
Format: Paperback
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POETRY / Russian & Soviet, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Places
Viktor Aleksandrovich Sosnora was born in 1936 in Alupka, Crimea. During World War II, Sosnora was in Leningrad at the beginning of the blockade. His poetic mentor was Nikolai Aseyev, who wrote the foreword to his first book of poetry in 1962. Sosnora has since published six more volumes of poems in Russian: Triptych, 1965; Riders, 1969; Crystal, 1977; Poems, 1977; and Moon Song, 1982. Dinara Georgeoliani was educated in Moscow and Tbilisi, Georgia. She is a linguist, with extensive experience in English/Russian translation and scholarship. She has published, in Russia, numerous articles on the history of American film. She is currently Assistant Professor at Central Washington University where she teaches in the Dept. of Foreign Languages. Mark Halperin teaches in the English Department at Central Washington University. He was a Fulbright lecturer at Moscow State Linguistic University in Russia, and has returned there to serve as an exchange professor at Hertzen University in St. Petersburg. He has published three collections of poetry, including The Measure of Islands (Wesleyan University Press) and Time as Distance (New Issues).