Ian Probstein
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Ian Probstein
New York, USA

Ian Probstein is a poet, scholar, and translator of poetry. He has authored, edited, and/or translated many books, including The River of Time: Time-Space, Language, and History in Avant-Garde, Modernist, and Contemporary Poetry (Boston, 2017); Complete annotated edition of T. S. Eliot’s Poetry and Plays (St. Petersburg, 2019); Charles Bernstein. Sign Under Test: Selected Poems and Essays (Moscow, 2020); Contemporary American Poetry in Russian from Black Mountain Poets to Language Poetry, co-editor with Vl. Feshchenko;Centuries Encircle me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam, a bilingual edition. Translation, introduction, and commentary by Ian Probstein (Boston, 2022); Dmitry Strotsev. War and Peace. Selected poems translated into English (New York, 2025), etc.

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by Wayne Pernu

The new poetry collection from Wayne Pernu, one of the finest poets writing in English today. This is one of those rare collections that calls to mind the great masters—Donne, Keats, Yeats.

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by Mikhail Iossel

Comedy and tragedy collide in stories of family life in Soviet Russia and the complexities of the immigrant experience

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by Boris Khersonsky, Ludmila Khersonsky

Boris Khersonsky and Ludmila Khersonsky write poetry that speaks to the crisis of our time, when refugees run from bombardments, and nonstop propaganda flows from TV. The setting is Ukraine at the start of the twenty-first century, but it is eerily recognizable anywhere.

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by Sergei Shabalin

A new book of poems by New York poet and essayist Sergei Shabalin. In Russian.

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