Poetry. Translated from the Russian by J. Kates. "Intimate variety. Regina Derieva is remarkable for the range of voices she deploys"—Les Murray. "Regina Derieva's best poems are simultaneously elusive and immediate, striking and understated, personal and distanced. Few poets attempt such transformation in so few words"—Tim Liardet.

Author City: Stockholm SWE

Regina Derieva (b. 1949) is an acclaimed Russian poet and writer. She has published twenty books of poetry, essays, and prose, and her work has been translated into many languages, including English, French, Swedish, Chinese, Italian, and Arabic. Derieva's poems have appeared in Poetry, Quadrant, Modern Poetry in Translation, Salt, Cross Currents, Poetry East, St. Petrsburg Review, Ars Interpres, Notre Dame Review, as well as in many Russian magazines. She has translated poetry by contemporary American, Australian, British, Swedish, and Polish poets. In 2003, Derieva has been awarded the Shannon Fellowship of the International Thomas Merton Society. Regina Derieva currently lives in Sweden.

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