[FIRST PRINTING OF THREE PASTERNAK POEMS – SCARCE REGIONAL PUBLICATION] Kinovar': sbornik stikhov [Cinnabar: anthology of poems].

Riazan': Izdanie Riazanskogo Otdeleniia Vserossiiskogo Soiuza Poetov (Gosudarstvennoe izdatel'stvo), 1921. Octavo (20.5 × 13.5 cm). Original printed wrappers; 42, [2] pp. Professional repair to spine; else about very good. Item #54319

Scarce provincial publication by the Ryazan branch of the All-Russian Union of Poets. Contains poems by Iakov Apushkin, Riurik Ivnev, Veniamin Kisin, Nataliia Kugusheva, Dmitrii Maizel's, Taras Machtet, and Boris Pasternak. The latter contributed three previously unpublished poems ("Vesennee", "Osennee", "Zimnee" from the cycle "Nabroski"). In summer of 1920, Pasternak visited his uncle Iosif Kaufman in Ryazan, where he met a group of local writers and enthusiastically read his poems to meetings of the local Union of Poets branch, during creative evenings held at a local cafe. He not only agreed to have the three poems published in the present anthology, but also managed to convince the Imaginist poet Riurik Ivnev to contribute three poems himself.

One of 600 copies printed.

Not in Rozanov. Getty 327.

As of March 2024, KVK, OCLC show three copies, at the Getty, NYPL, and MIT.

Price: €600.00

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