Fever and Other New Poems Author:Bella Akhmadulina, Geoffrey Dutton (Translator), Igor Mezhakoff-Koriakin (Translator) Bella Akhmadulina is the finest living Russian poet: so says he former husband, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, who has written the introduction to this first American edition of her poems. Intensely personal, her work communicates splendidly the startling depth of her response to the world and her own experience in it. She belongs to that superb group of ... more »confessional and consummately lyric women poets, very much of our time, that includes Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath.« less