Bratsk Station and other new poems Author:Yevgeny Yevtyshenko Yevgeny Yevtushenko is that rare poet whose passionate personal concerns are sufficiently representative of the concerns of his time and nation to make him spokesman for a generation. This volume is the first publication in America of the complete Bratsk Station, Yevtushenko's major work, an epic cycle of thirty-five poems about the building of... more » the hydroelectric power station at Bratsk in Siberia. To the poet, the Bratz project represents the best elements of traditional and modern Russian life as brought together under the Soviet system. In Bratsk Station and the twenty-six other new poems collected here, Yevtushenko writes fervently of his faith in the ideals behind the Revolution, of the Russian land and people--and often of the troubled relation of the artist's "I" to the "we" of government.« less