Good to be alive. Poems and translations

Dmitry Kuzmin (r. 1968) is one of the brightest writers of modern Russia: the poet, translator, publisher, philologist, critic, organizer of numerous festivals and contests ... In 2002, awarded Andrei White Prize in the nomination For merit to Russian literature. However, in the amplua of the poet Kuzmin is known less: representing Russian and European readers a variety of Russian writers, for many years he has almost not published. This book is the first edition of Kuzmina poems, demonstrating both the reasons for its dating and its attention to the inocultural contexts of Russian poetry: the collection includes not only original poems, but also transfers from English (from the British and American poets of the 20th century) and Ukrainian. The most interesting thing for me is a stopped instant of absolutely individual human life, these words D. Kuzmin better characterize the features of his poetics