Poetry. Bilingual Edition. Translated from the Russian by Christopher Mattison. A FIREPROOF BOX is the first English-language translation collection of poems important young Russian poet, novelist, and translator Gleb Shulpyakov, who was awarded the prestigious Triumph Prize for his poetry in 2001. As Evgeny Rein states in his introduction to the collection, Shulpyakov's poetry is that of one "who understands the value of existence, of the spiritual richness of existence which can descend upon any person."
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“Gleb Shulpyakov is not only the inheritor of a great tradition and anti-tradition of Russian poetry, but also a new internationalist who understands the value of the local, of the immediate. In this poetry full of wonder and respect, of sharp and insightful investigation of cultural heritage, the creative process, ways of seeing, and the ironies of the self in day-to-day life, we see something new and unique. This poet will mark his time. Gleb Shulpyakov is one of the handful of poets writing now I would confidently term ‘a poet of genius.’”
—John Kinsella