Gossip and metaphysics : Russian modernist poems and prose / edited by Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky, and Valzhyna Mort.

Introduction / by Katie Farris
Boris Pasternak. Wild Vines / a version by Robert Lowell ; For Anna Akhmatova / a version by Robert Lowell ; Part Three, from Safe Conduct/ translated by Angela Livingston ; A letter to Marina Tsvetaeva (March 25, 1926) / translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt
Marina Tsvetaeva. A kiss on the forehead / a version by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine ; I know the truth / a version by Ilya Kaminsky and Jean Valentine ; I would have loved to live with you / translated by Valzhyna Mort ; From Art in Light of Conscience / translated by Angela Livingstone ; From poets With History and Without History / translated by Angela Livingstone ; From a letter to Boris Pasternak (May 23, 1926) / translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt ; From a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke (July 6, 1926) / translated by Margaret Wettlin and Walter Arndt
Osip Mandelstam. Tristia / translated by Christian Wiman ; The Necklace / translated by Christian Wiman ; Leningrad / translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin ; Your thin shoulders / translated by Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin ; From Conversation about Dante / translated by Jane Gray Harris and Constance Link ; From The Noise of Time / translated by Clarence Brown ; From Alagez, from Journey to Armenia / translated by Clarence Brown
Daniil Kharms. The Beginning of a Beautiful Summer Day (A Symphony) / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; Symphony #2 / translated by Valzhyna Mort ; Incidents / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; A Fairytale / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; Old Ladies Are Flying / a version by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; Something about Pushkin / translated by Matvei Yankelevich with Eugene Ostashevsky ; Gogol & Pushkin / translated by Matvei Yankelevich ; Dear Nikandr Andreyevich, / translated by Matvei Yankelevich
Andrei Bely. Pushkin and Gogol / translated by Christopher Colbath ; Gogol and Mayakovsky / translated by Christopher Colbath ; From The Dramatic Symphony, Part One / translated by Roger and Angela Keys ; From The Dramatic Symphony, Part Three / translated by Roger and Angela Keys ; From The Dramatic Symphony, Part Four / translated by Roger and Angela Keys
Vladimir Mayakovsky. From the Cloud in Trousers: a tetraptych / translated by Max Hayward and George Reavey ; They Don't Understand a Thing / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; From I, Myself / translated by Katya Apekina ; From How Are Verses Made? / translated by G. M. Hyde ; V. V. Khlebnikov / translated by Judson Rosengrant
Velimir Khlebnikov. Incantation by Laughter / translated by Paul Schmidt ; The Solo Actor / translated by Paul Schmidt ; Russia, I give you my divine... / translated by Paul Schmidt ; Thant you made us mortal... /translated by Valzhyna Mort ; Roast mouse / translated by Paul Schmidt ; The lice had blind faith, and they prayed to me / translated by Paul Schmidt ; From On Poetry / translated by Paul Schmidt ; From A Slap on the Face of Public Taste / (written with David Burliuk, Aleksei Kruchenykh, and Vladimir Mayakovsky) translated by Anna Lawton and Herbert Eagle ; Let them read on my gravestone... / translated by Paul Schmidt
Anna Akhmatova. He liked Three Things / translated by Valzhyna Mort ; From Wild Honey is the Smell of Freedom / translated by Ilya Kaminsky and Katie Farris ; On the road / translated by Jane Kenyon with Vera Sandomirsk ; Voronezh / translated by Katie Farris, Ilya Kaminsky, and Valzhyna Mort ; When A Man Dies, His Portraits Change / translated by Katie Farris and Ilya Kaminsky ; From Requiem 1935-1940 / translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward ; Pushkin's Stone Guest / translated by Janet Tucker
Joseph Brodsky. Homage to Girolamo Marcello / translated by the author ; To My Daughter / written in English ; From A Part of Speech / translated by Daniel Weissbort with the author ; On Love / translated by Daniel Weissbort with the author ; From "Nature Morte", section X / translated by George L. Kline ; Letter to Horace / written in English ; From In a Room and a Half / written in English ; From A Poet and Prose / translated by Barry Rubin ; Afterword: On Two Love Poems / by Valzhyna Mort.