Pasternak said that the 50 poems that My Sister, Life comprises should be read and understood as a whole. The book describes a time both in the life of the poetic speaker and in the life of his country. The… Read More ›
20th century Russian poets
Analysis of Andrei Voznesensky’s I Am Goya
“I Am Goya” (“Я – Гойя!”), composed in 1957, first appeared in Andrei Voznesensky’s debut collection, Mozaika (Mosaics), which was published in Vladimir, USSR, in 1960, when the poet was 27 years old. It is reputedly “one of the poet’s… Read More ›