Out of the Blue: Contents

1.GAY THEMES IN GOLDEN AGE LITERATURE (19th Century)

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837): Poem: Imitation of the Arabic; Translated by Michael Green
A Pushkin Puzzle: Essay by Michael Green
Mikhail Lermontov (1814-1841): Poem:Ode to the John; Poem:To Tiesenhausen; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852): Nights at the Villa; Translated with commentary by Simon Karlinsky
Leo Toistoy (1828-1910): The Ivins-Selections from Childhood; Pages from Tolstoy's Diaries; Translated by Kevin Moss
Konstantin Leontiev (1831-1891): Khamid and Manoli (story); Translated by Gerald McCausland

Mikhail Kuzmin (1872-1936): Aunt Sonya's Sofa (story); Virginal Victor: A Byzantine Tale (story); A Summer Affair (Cycle of 12 poems); A Story Interrupted (Cycle of 10 poems); Three Poems from Alexandrian Songs; All storieslpoems translated by Michael Green
Mikhail Kuzmin: Past and Present: Mikhail Kuzmin's Diaries-A Foretaste; Two Essays by Michael Green
Fyodor Sologub (1863-1927): The Petty Demon (Selections from the novel); Translated by S. D. Cioran
Vyacheslav Ivanov (1866-1949): Two Poems; Translated by Vitaly Chernelsky
Vasily Rozanov (1856-1919): People of the Moonlight (Selections); Translated by Spencer E. Roberts
Nikolai Klyuev (1887-1937): Two Poems; Translated by Simon Karlinsky
Sergei Esenin (1895-1925): Four Poems; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky

Ryurik Ivnev (1891-1981): Selections from Ivnev's Diaries; Translated by Michael Molnar; Poem: "Who Will Comprehend These Feelings."; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
Anatoly Steiger (1907-1981): Ten Poems; Translated by Paul Schmidt
Georgy Ivanov (1894-1958): The Third Rome (Selections from the novel); Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
Valery Pereleshin [pseud.] (1913-1992): Three Poems; Three Sonnets from Ariel; Translated by Simon Karlinsky; Twelve Sonnets from Ariel; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
Yevgeny Kharitonov (1941-1981): Four Stories:; The Oven; One Boy's Story: How I Got Like That; Alyosha-Seryozha; The Leaflet; All translated by Kevin Moss
Gennady Trifonov (b. 1945): Poem: Letter from Prison; Three Poems from Tbilisi by Candlelight; Translated by Simon Karlinsky; Open Letter to Literaturnaya Gazeta; Translated by Kevin Moss

Letters to the Editor of Tema and 1/10: Translated by Kevin Moss
V. K. and Nikolai Serov: Letters About Prison Life; Translated by Dan Healey
Vladimir Makanin (b. 1937): The Prisoner of the Caucasus (story); Translated by Anatoly Vishevsky and Michael Biggins
Vassily Aksyonov (b. 1932): Around Dupont (story); Translated by Alla Zbinovsky
Yury Past (b. 1954): No Offense in Love (story); Translated by Diane Nemec, Ignashev
Nikolai Kolyada (b. 1957): Slingshot (play); Translated by Susan Larsen
Sergei Rybikov (b. 1962): Lays of the Gay Slavs; Translated by Anatoly Vishevsky and Michael Biggins
Dmitry Gubin (b. 1967): Three Poems; Translated by J. Kates
Dmitry Kuz'min (b. 1968): Two Poems; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
Gennady Trifonov (b. 1945): Two Ballets by George Balanchine (Selections from the novella); Translated by Michael Molnar
Efim Yeliseev [pseud.] (b. 1940s): The Bench (story); Translated by Anthony Vanchu
Vitaly Yasinsky [Pseud.] (b. 1946): A Sunny Day at the Seaside (story); Translated by Anthony Vanchu
K. E. [pseud.] (b. 1962): The Phone Call (story); Translated by Anthony Vanchu
Yaroslav Mogutin (b. 1974): The Death of Misha Beautiful; Poem: The Army Elegy; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky
Dimitri Bushuev (b. 1969): Poem: "The night will burst with hail, and the rain"; Echoes of Harlequin (Selections from the novel); Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky