My Sister Life and the Zhivago Poems

by Boris Pasternak

Boris Pasternak is best known in the West for his epic novel Doctor Zhivago, whereas in Russia he is most celebrated as a poet. The two poetry collections offered here in translation are chronological and thematic bookends, and they capture Pasternak's abiding and powerful vision of life: his sense of its beauty and terror, its precariousness for the individual, and its persistence in time--that vitality of being with which he is on familiar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810127970
• ISBN13: 9780810127975
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.7"