{"product_id":"selected-poems-isbn-9780140424775","title":"Selected Poems","description":"This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. ‘Zima Junction’ vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in ‘Waking’, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and ‘Birthday’, on a mother’s concern for her son, while ‘Encounter’ depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. ‘The Companion’ and ‘Party Card’ show war from a child’s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko’s famous poem, ‘Babiy Yar’, is an angry exposé of the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-) is a Russian poet, essayist, dramatist, screenwriter and actor.   Translated with an introduction by Robin Milner-Gulland and Peter Levi, S.J.Lies\u003cbr\u003eTelling lies to the young is wrong\u003cbr\u003eProving to them that lies are true is wrong.\u003cbr\u003eTelling them that God's in his heaven\u003cbr\u003eand all's well with the world is wrong.\u003cbr\u003eThe young people know what you mean. The young are people.\u003cbr\u003eTell them the difficulties can't be counted,\u003cbr\u003eand let them see not only what will be\u003cbr\u003ebut see with clarity these present times.\u003cbr\u003eSay obstacles exist they must encounter\u003cbr\u003esorrow happens, hardship happens.\u003cbr\u003eThe hell with it. Who never knew\u003cbr\u003ethe price of happiness will not be happy.\u003cbr\u003eForgive no error you recognize, \u003cbr\u003eit will repeat itself, increase,\u003cbr\u003eand afterward our pupils\u003cbr\u003ewill not forgive in us what we forgave.","brand":"Penguin Classics","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46305057112293,"sku":"NP9780140424775","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140424775.jpg?v=1767736317","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/selected-poems-isbn-9780140424775","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}