This volume contains a selection of early works by Yevgeny Alexandrovich Yevtushenko who blazed a trail for a generation of Soviet poets with a confident poetic voice that moves effortlessly between social and personal themes. -Zima Junction- vividly describes his idyllic childhood in Siberia and his impressions of home after a long absence in Moscow. Private moments are captured in -Waking-, on the joys of discovering the unexpected in a lover, and -Birthday-, on a mother-s concern for her son, while -Encounter- depicts an unexpected meeting with Hemingway in Copenhagen. -The Companion- and -Party Card- show war from a child-s eye, whether playing while oblivious to German bombs falling nearby or discovering a fatally wounded soldier in the forest, while Yevtushenko-s famous poem, -Babiy Yar-, is an angry expos-f the Nazi massacre of the Jews of Kiev.
