First U.S. paperback edition of Fever and Other New Poems by Bella Akhmadulina, published as part of the Apollo Editions series in 1969 by William Morrow & Company, New York. Introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Translated by Geoffrey Dutton and Igor Mezhaikoff-Koriaikin. Bright, striking purple and orange cover design, part of the Cold War–era wave introducing modern Soviet poets to English readers. Akhmadulina—one of the leading voices of the Thaw generation—appears here alongside Yevtushenko, Voznesensky, and Brodsky in helping define post-Stalinist Russian lyrical modernism.

Author: Bella Akhmadulina

Publisher: William Morrow & Company / Apollo Editions

Year: 1969

Special attributes: First U.S. paperback edition, introduction by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Geoffrey Dutton and Igor Mezhaikoff-Koriaikin

Topic: Russian poetry, 20th-century literature, translation

Subject: Soviet poetry, modernism, Cold War literary exchange

Keywords: Akhmadulina, Yevtushenko, Soviet poets, Russian women poets, Apollo Editions, William Morrow, Cold War literature, 1960s poetry, translation, modern Russian verse

Condition: Near fine, tight and unmarked, light corner wear only