A Close Reading (2023)
of Fifty-three Poems Selected by Alexander Solzhenitsyn
The poems in this volume show the remarkable range of Lipkin’s work: his Jewish faith, Stalin’s oppression, the Holocaust, and the spiritual fate of mankind and reveal why, as a poet, he was revered by great Russian writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Akhmatova, and Josef Brodsky.
“The witty, wise, and acerbic voice of Semyon Lipkin, a poetic scourge of Soviet autocracy and cruelty, comes fully to life in this volume. Hendon Press, Yvonne Green, and Sergei Makarov are to be congratulated for this precious poetic gift to the English-language reader.”
– Thomas de Waal, author of The Caucasus: An Introduction and translator of Osip Mandelstam’s Tristia
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