Update: Voloshin and More Poplavsky

As promised, here comes the second weekly update! This time we have for you several poems by the great Maksimilian Voloshin: the influential Crimean poet, painter, and warlock of friendly hearths whose Koktebel house once served as a year-round Black Sea-side hostel of sorts for the diverse cream of early 20th century Russian art and literary crops, including our fellow Silver Agers Tsvetayeva and Gumilev. The poems on hand are anything but cozy, however (except for one perhaps). They are epic, strange, mystical, and even apocalyptic. Much of the same can be said of the poems belonging to the pen of our favorite Russian Surrealist in Paris Boris Poplavsky. Today we have a few more of his choicest works as well. Enjoy while keeping warm with a cup of black tea or a bottle of wine!