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The Stray Dog Cabaret


by Paul Schmidt

Easter greetings from the front, 1917. Original watercolor by Karl Schmit(?) postmarked March 31, 1917. Easter fell on April 8, 1917. A window shows a bare tree with hills in the distance. Text: Ostergrüsse aus dem Felde Easter greetings from the front Reverse: Field postmarked March 31, 1917

Easter greetings from the front, 1917. Original watercolor by Karl Schmit(?) postmarked March 31, 1917. Easter fell on April 8, 1917.

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems. Translated by Paul Schmidt

Poems by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Esenin

The two long poems, 'The Poem of the End' by Marina Tsvetaeva and 'Twelve' by Alexander Blok, particularly the Tsvetaeva, are high points.

Publisher: New York Review Books, 2007

Copyright: 2007 By the Estate of Paul Schmidt