War Ballad (alternatively titled Ballad of 1941) was first published in Andrey Voznesensky’s debut collection, Mozaika (Mozaics) (Vladimir 1960), along with I Am Goya. In that book the poem was “dedicated to the partisans of Kerch, a peninsula in the… Read More ›
Andrei Voznesensky first published Ode to Gossips in his second collection of verse, Parabola, published in Moscow (1960); he then slightly altered the poem when he republished it in Antimiry (Antiworlds, 1964). Stanley Moss’s excellent translation preserves the work’s eclectic… Read More ›