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Really good, but also pretty short. I don't know what the back story was with this collection, but it seems like it could have been longer. Oh, they have the original Russian versions, but I don't read Russian. It might as well be white space. What's here however is terrific. The translators (Kunitz & Hayword)did some fine work bringing these poems to life. I compared a few of the poems (Willow, Cleopatra) with the versions in the D.M Thomas/Penguin effort, and it's clear that these are the vers
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