Day of the Border Guards: Poems

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Contents Acknowledgments vii I. Day of the Border Guards 1 Old Maps 3 Reading Mr. Lincoln’s Army 5 Centralized Heating 7 Speaking English 9 Speaking Russian 10 Fish Tale 12 Nearing Chernobyl 13 The Cow 14 Lady Macbeth in the Caucasus 17 No Dog in This Fight 18 Wreaths 20 Day of the Border Guards 21 II. Knitting in Siberia 23 Siberian Spring 25 Driving the M8 26 The Parrot Flaubert 30 June Snow 31 Yellow Flowers 32 Names for Snow 33 Last Flight of the Gypsy King 34 City of Bells 36 What’s Left 38 Knitting in Siberia 39 Kingdom of Heaven 42 III. Peredelkino 45 On the Bosphorus 47 At the Lermontov Museum 48 My KGB File 49 Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts 50 Thirty Years Later 51 Red Vineyard, 1888: A Painting by Van Gogh 53 The Arrest: May 13, 1934 54 Evdokia 56 The Percussive Quality of Light 57 Zagorsk 59 Peredelkino 60 Notes 61 x ...