Poetry. Literary Criticism. Essays. LONG FALL acts as a primer for the art of poetic translation, a touchstone forstudents of Russian-American Letters as well as a beginner's guide for thoseinterested in probing the arc of literary historical projection. "Andrey Gritsman lives on borders as in a crystal ball, reflecting light, color, and power all around. Gifted poet and sharp essayist, passionate thinker andmaster of games, sleepless mind and energy dedicated to art, time-bomb ofideas at the crossroad of himself, strong creation out of Europe, out of theAmerican Way, out of the Spirit of Internationalism. This book shows the uniquedimension of an artist living between common stars and exquisite earth"--Carmen Firan.

About the author: Andrey Gritsman is a native of Moscow, Russia, immigrated to the US in 1981, lives in the New York City area, works as a physician. He is a poet, essayist and translator and writes in English and in his native Russian. Mr. Gritsman is the author of five volumes of poetry in Russian: No Man's Land (Petropol, S.-Petersburg), Double (Hermitage, New York), Transfer (Arion, Moscow) and Island in the Woods from the Pushkin Foundation Publishing House in S.-Petersburg. Book of essay on poetry Poet in Intercultural Space was published in Moscow in 2005. Andrey is the author of many publications in Russia, in Israel and in Europe in prestigious literary periodicals.