Nostalgia for the Present

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1978. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Signed by Voznesensky on the title page as well as Allen Ginsberg, Robert Bly, and Stanley Kunitz on the translators page. Fine in a Near Fine jacket, unclipped ($10.00), rubbed and toned. Quarter beige cloth with black paper on the boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of "new poems, and one classic, by the celebrated Russian poet." Voznesensky's influence is so profound that this edition bears two forewords, one by Senator Ted Kennedy and the other by playwright Arthur Miller. The original Russian appears opposite the translated text, with translations done by the likes of Ginsberg, Bly, Kunitz, Louis Simpson, Richard Wilbur, Lawrence Ferlinghetti.