Rasul Gamzatov, Selected Poems

1974, translated by Peter Tempest, and with a copy of Tempest's First Poems (1957)

Author

Rasul Gamzatov, translated by Peter Tempest, translated from the Avar into Russia by Naum Grebnev and Yakov Kozlovsky

Publisher

Progress Publishers, Moscow, 1974

Printing Details

First edition, first printing. Hardback in dustwrapper. 20.5 × 12cm, 351pp. Text in Russian and English.

A selection of verse from Rasul Gazmatov, the Russian poet from the Avar village of Tsada in the north-east Caucasus. Each piece is presented in the Russian to the verso and English to the recto.

Also included is a first edition copy of translator Peter Tempest's "First Poems" (Lawrence & Wishart, 1957). Tempest was a poet, translator and the Moscow correspondent for The Daily Worker in the 1960s.