Grass and Stone. Selected Poems / Трава и камень

First printing 1977.

Translated By Olga Shartse.

Selected poems of Kaisyn Kuliev are meditations on eternal and universal problrms of life and death, of good and evel, of love, friendship, and justice.They are a sincere and frank confession of a brave and kind man who has gone through a great deal in his life.

Kaisyn Kuliev was born in 1917 in the village of Upper Chegem in Balkarian Northern Caucasus. A gifted lyrical poet and master of aphoristic, stern and dignified verse in the tradition of Caucasian folk poetry, Kuliev is extremely popular with Soviet readers. In 1974 he was awarded the USSR State Prize for his collection of poems entitled Book of the Earth.

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Сборник избранных произведений на английском языке с параллельными русскими текстами. Русские переводы: Наум Гребнев, а также Олег Чухонцев, Семен Липкин, Николай Тихонов, Вера Звягинцева, Евгений Елисеев, Лев Шифферс, Дмитрий Голубков, Юлия Нейман, Яков Козловский.

Перевод на английский – Ольга Шарце.

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