Winter Dialogue

Best known in the U.S. as a scholar and critic, Tomas Venclova is a gifted poet whose work has remained largely unknown to an English-speaking audience. This collection of fifty-one poems is as distinctive as it is finely crafted. Also included is a foreword by Joseph Brodsky and an exchange between Venclova and Czeslaw Milosz.

"Winter Dialogue is a single-minded meditation--a Yeatsian conversation between self and soul--on the largest themes. For to answer the question 'What happened to home?' is--or, better, would be--to answer a great many core existential queries." --Sven Birkerts, Harvard Review

"Though he is every bit as devoted to classical form as Milosz, his poems have the flinty, frigid feel of a bleak Baltic winter; they evoke both the chill of the northern latitudes and the extreme effort needed to survive at low temperatures." --New York Review of Books