Jim Kates on Vladislav Khodasevich

By Jim Kates — Published on December 7, 2009

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Among Russian poets of past generations, Blok and Pasternak (again!) are badly and underrepresented in English, and Vladislav Khodasevich is virtually invisible in English, although he’s considered the best poet of the post-Revolutionary diaspora. (Well, if we don’t count Tsvetaeva.) The former is known in the West only under a fictional name in Nabokov’s novel The Gift.

Jim Kates is a codirector of Zephyr Press whose poems and translations have been published widely.

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