Selected Prose & Poetry

Presented in this essential collection are the novelWings; the play The Venetian Madcaps; thirteen short stories; and two major poetic cycles, including the acclaimed The Trout Breaks the Ice. This anthology exhibits the high level of craftsmanship for which Kuzmin was valued by so many leading writers of his time, including Mandelstam, Akhmatova, Pasternak, Mayakovsky, Meyerhold, and Blok. Kuzmin holds one of the first places among contemporary Russian poets. Only a few are blessed with such an amazing harmony of the whole, combined with free diversity of details * Nikolay Gumilev *