Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings

The least known of the Russian writers in Harold Bloom's Western Canon. Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936) is the last to emerge from the oblivion imposed by Soviet prudery on the country's non-conformist art. Green and Shvabrin's Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings takes the English-speaking reader well beyond the reference-book cliche of Kuzmin as Russia's first openly gay writer, made notorious by his "coming-out" novel Wings of 1906. One of the supreme Russian poets of the twentieth century-the equal of Akhmatova, Blok, Mayakovsky, Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetayeva-Kuzmin was also an outstanding prose writer, dramatist, and literary theoretician. Finally he is beginning to receive the attention that is his due.Kuzmin, M. A. is the author of 'Mikhail Kuzmin Selected Writings ', published 2005 under ISBN 9780838756010 and ISBN 0838756018.