Aleksandr Kushner

Aleksandr Kushner was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1936, and his poetry resonates with its rich cultural heritage. He rose to prominence as part of the post-Stalin "thaw generation" that included Andrei Bitov, Joseph Brodsky and Evgenii Rein, and his work has reached new levels in both reputation and popularity since the break-up of the Soviet Union. He has won numerous awards, national and international, and his poems have been translated into over a dozen languages. Apollo in the...See more

Aleksandr Kushner was born in Leningrad (St. Petersburg) in 1936, and his poetry resonates with its rich cultural heritage. He rose to prominence as part of the post-Stalin "thaw generation" that included Andrei Bitov, Joseph Brodsky and Evgenii Rein, and his work has reached new levels in both reputation and popularity since the break-up of the Soviet Union. He has won numerous awards, national and international, and his poems have been translated into over a dozen languages. Apollo in the Grass is the first volume in English translation of Kushner's post-Soviet poems, and also includes certain earlier ones that could not be printed when they were written. See less