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When the poet Vladislav Khodasevich fled the Soviet Union in 1922, he left behind a country that was, with every passing day, growing more ominous. And yet in finding a way out -- and outliving many of his contemporaries -- Khodasevich was nearly erased from the tumultuous literary history of Russia's long twentieth century. The publication of his Selected Poems is an essential and long-overdue tribute to this extraordinarily gifted poet. Born in 1886, Khodasevich came of age among the famed avant-gardists of Russian poetry, but unlike the major modernists of the age -- the Symbolists and the Futurists among them -- he sought inspiration neither in esoteric doctrines, nor in grand pronouncements. Instead, he was determined to find meaning in the world, and each of his poems reflects this tireless, often heroic, sometimes deeply bitter engagement with his surroundings.



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