San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1962. First Edition. “In the middle 50’s a number of Soviet writers started what became known as “The Thaw”: a movement towards freedom of personal literary and critical expression that has been going on ever since, in spite of several setbacks and sometimes heavily-worded official censure. YEVGENI YEVTUSHENKO and ANDREI VOZESENSKY, the two younger poets in this selection, came onto the literary scene during..... More