Alexey Petrovich Tsvetkov (1947–2022) is an outstanding poet with whom we were fortunate to live at the same time. 'Quinse Idylls and Other Things' is the author's last lifetime publication and includes the lyric cycle 'Quinse Idylls,' poems from his final years, and an excerpt from his autobiographical prose.
Year: 2024Language: Russian
Pages: 152
Cover: softcover
Publisher: Babel Books
ISBN: 978-965-92929-4-3
Aleksey Petrovich Tsvetkov was a Russian poet, prose writer, essayist, and translator.
He was born in 1947 in Stanislav (now Ivano-Frankivsk) and grew up in Zaporizhzhia. He studied at the Faculty of Chemistry of Odesa University, the Faculty of Journalism, and the Faculty of History of Moscow State University.
He was a member of the poetry group “Moscow Time.” Arrested and deported from Moscow in 1975, he was forced to emigrate to the United States. He graduated from the University of Michigan, defended his dissertation in 1983, and held a PhD.…
