Twenty Poems of Viktor Bokov
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This bilingual volume (English-Russian) represents the first time twenty poems of Victor Bokov have appeared in one place. He is an important Russian poet whose original works first appeared in the sixties & seventies. Three of his poems are already in George Reavy's NEW RUSSIAN POETS 1953-1956 & in a collection by Olga Carlisle. But mentions of him by other American authors are few & far between. The twenty poems are a sampling of all of Bokov's poetry. There is some nature poetry--some love poetry, some poetry of the philosophical-meditative turn, some of the patriotic-national variety. Some refer to Russia's long tradition of folk tales & folklore. Still other poems refer to the theme of the poet & one poem is devoted to Alexander Pushkin. The poems show that as a modern poet he is very traditional; rhyme & meter are present in all of his poems. He is not inclined to experiment with blank verse. Bokov's numerous poems on birch trees, flowered meadows, & even personified meadow grass give him a strong dimension that would best compare him to Walt Whitman, one of our own nature poets. There seems to be a fusion of Russia itself with all of these wonderments of nature. -- Provided by publisher
Document Type
Book
ISBN
9780963240408
Publication Date
1992
Publisher
Roseta Press
City
Las Cruces, N.M
Department
Department of Modern Languages
Object Description
76 pages
Language
en
Recommended Citation
Jamosky, Edward and Bokov, Viktor, "Twenty Poems of Viktor Bokov" (1992). Faculty Book Gallery. 581.
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/facbook/581
