Sergey Gandlevsky is one of the most celebrated contemporary Russian poets. Born in 1952, Gandlevsky opted out of the Soviet system, working odd jobs and sharing poetry with a small coterie of friends in the 1970s and '80s. His work did not appear in Russian literary journals until the late '80s, during glasnost and perestroika. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, Gandlevsky's poetry and prose have received nearly every major Russian literary prize: the Little Booker Prize, the Anti-Booker Prize, the Moscow Score Prize, and the Poet Prize. A Russian critics' poll named him the country's most important living poet. His writing--poetry, fiction, and essays--has been translated into numerous languages. Brilliantly rendered into English by award-winning poet and translator Philip Metres, Ochre & Rust presents five decades of the best work from a major voice in Russian letters.