Elena Mancini

My first encounter with the poetry of Andrey Gritsman occurred on a cheerless winter night in 2004. Gritsman was giving a poetry reading at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City. The RCI had invited him to promote the Romanian translation of one of his recent poetry collections, In Transit (2004). The evening began…

LOGOS EM: Who were your earliest poetic influences? AG: Well, certainly in Russian poetry Lermontov and Pushkin. I would say Vladimir Mayakovsky was very important during my early years, mainly because my father liked him a lot and read his poems to me aloud.  To a certain degree Yessenin.  In other words, these two giants…