This book consists of the work of twenty-three poets, living in Russia and abroad and writing during the period since 1975. It is the first dual-language anthology in many years.

Russian collection.

Boris Slutsky -- Boris Chichibabin -- Bulat Okudzhava -- Vladimir Kornilov -- German Plisetsky -- Evgenii Rein -- Dmitrii Bobyshev -- Natalya Gorbanevskaya -- Aleksandr Kushner -- Bella Akhmadulina -- Yunna Morits -- Lev Loseff -- Oleg Chukhontsev -- Joseph Brodsky -- Kmitrii Prigov -- Yurii Kublanovsky -- Aleksei Tsvetkov -- Elena Shvarts -- Ivan Zhdanov -- Olega Sedakova -- Bakhyt Kenzheev -- Aleksandr Eremenko -- Aleksei Parshchikov.