Relative Genitive: Poems with Translations from Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky
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Relative Genitive: Poems with Translations from Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky
by Val Vinokur

Original poetry by Val Vinokur, accompanied by a selection of poems by Osip Mandelstam and Vladimir Mayakovsky, translated from Russian by Vinokur. Edited by Emily Skillings, “Relative Genitive” is the second book from Poets & Traitors Press, which publishes hybrid books of poetry by a single author-translator.

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