\u201cAnd Andrei V. he cries, with eyes that ring like chimes\/ His anti-worlds go spinning through his head\u201d\u2063\n\u2063\nI love a typographic cover, especially one that works on multiple levels. This is \u2018Antiworlds\u2019, Russian poet Andrei Voznesesky\u2019s 1964 collection, in an English translation from 1966. Six American poets \u2013 including W.H. Auden, Stanley Moss and Richard Wilbur \u2013 were given literal translations of the Russian originals by Max Hayward, and used them as a basis to create English equivalents. In his foreword, Auden noted Voznesesky\u2019s work contained a \u201cvariety of tones, elegiac, comic, grotesque, quiet, rebellious\u201d, adding \u201cI am certain [he]...
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