*Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems
of Lev Rubinstein*, translated by Philip Metres
and Tatiana Tulchinsky, is published by Ugly
Duckling Presse in 2004 as part of the Eastern
European Poets Series (#4). ISBN: 0-9727684-4-0
Philip Metres' poems and
translations of Russian poets have
appeared in numerous journals and in Best American
Poetry
(2002). His books include *A Kindred Orphanhood:
Selected
Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky* (Zephyr 2003), *Catalogue
of
Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein*
(Ugly
Duckling 2004), and *Primer for Non-Native Speakers*
(Kent
State 2004). He is an assistant professor of
English at John
Carroll University, living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Tatiana Tulchinsky, a longtime
translator who has translated
and published numerous works into Russian and
into English,
is currently completing the *Anthology of Russian
Verse, 18th-
20th century* with Gwenan Wilbur. In 1998, she
was awarded
the AATTSEEL Prize for Best Translation from
a Slavic or East
European Language for her work with Marvin Kantor
on *Leo
Tolstoy’s Plays in Three Volumes* (Northwestern
University
Press).
