<div><p>"Yeryomin's 'miniatures' thrill by their fierce attention to natural details and by their startling, revelatory juxtapositions. In these deft, astute English translations by J. Kates, Yeryomin's clear-eyed vision arrives intact?luminous, precise, and bracing."?Cyrus Cassells</p><p>"Yeryomin, whose name the Russians often mention next to Brodsky, has written the body of work that is inimitable in its scope and range; whose musical and metaphorical textures amaze one not just by what they say, but also what they withhold."?Ilya Kaminsky</p><p><B>Mikhail Yeryomin</B>, born in 1936, lives in St. Petersburg, Russia.</p><p><B>J. Kates</B> is a poet, literary translator, and the president and co-director of Zephyr Press.</p><BR></div>