A Book About American Poetry

In the book by the famous poet and translator Grigory Krzhizhanovsky, articles about three American poets are collected: Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, and Wallace Stevens; they can rightfully be called his lifelong companions. These are very different poets: Emily Dickinson, the provincial recluse, who never saw her poems in print; the acclaimed Robert Frost, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes; and Wallace Stevens, a great magician and wizard, who spent his life hiding behind the mask of an insurance executive. These authors have been given the main part of the book; but there is also room for other 20th-century poets: from the 'transatlantic' T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden to contemporary Americans Charles Simic and Kay Ryan.
Essays without poems are too dry a diet, so the book also includes selected translations that illustrate what is discussed in the articles.