List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction

Chapter 1. Anri Volohonsky's "Aorists of the Decrepit"
Chapter 2. Elizaveta Mnatsakanova's "Requiem"
Chapter 3.  How Joseph Brodsky Read His Poems
Chapter 4. Henry Khudyakov, Poet of Compressed Form
Chapter 5. Vsevolod Nekrasov's Minimalist Poetry
Chapter 6. The Poetics of Punctuation in Gennady Aygi's Free Verse
Chapter 7. Rea Nikonova's Pliugms

Afterword

Index

Gerald J. Janecek is Chairman of the Department of Russian and Eastern Studies at the University of Kentucky.