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Moscow: Sovetskiĭ Pisatel', 1969.

Price: $250.00

About the item

First edition. 160 pp. Small 8vo. Fold on last page, otherwise fine.

Item #333028

After her first book of poems Struna [String] (1962) was published, as a success, her work was criticized by the government as "superfluous and too intimate". It took her seven years to publish this, her second volume. Joseph Brodsky called her the best living poet in the Russian language.