Hexagon

Grigory Kruzhkov is a recognized master of artistic translation and a laureate of many prestigious awards. He has translated Donne, Shakespeare, Keats, Dickinson, Carroll, Kipling, Yeats, Heaney, and other classics of English, American, and Irish poetry. His own poems are full of echoes and reflections of world literature; at the same time, they possess their own instantly recognizable intonation, in which melancholy and irony, play and seriousness, lightness and aphoristic quality are intertwined. The book 'Hexagon' includes selected poems that offer a view of the world from seven different angles: the world 'as text', 'as number', 'as path', 'as time', 'as hunger', 'as city', and 'as translation'. 'For the benefit and pleasure' of the most curious readers, the poet has prepared his 'optional comments' specifically for this edition, recounting the contexts in which the poems were born and allowing readers to compare their understanding with what the author meant (or didn't mean).