Poetry. Translated by Philip Metres. In A KINDRED ORPHANHOOD, Sergey Gandlevsky's poetry melds a slangy vernacular with traditional forms and meters, in a poetry that witnesses to the underground life of a bohemian artist, traveler, and debauchee during the twilight of the soviet regime. "Out of the Rubik's Cube of Russia rise the complex strains of Sergey Gandlevsky. superb translations that uncannily make the Russian ours"--Andrei Codrescu.