RESISTANCE

To read an edited version of Richard Greeman's introduction to Serge's poetry in Resistance, click here.

Serge wrote most of his peotry during his exile in Orenburg. However, along with the two novels and history that he wrote there, all copies were taken by the NKVD. He later reconstructed them from memory.

Here are some of those poems, taken from the 1989 City Lights edition and reproduced with the kind permission of the translator, James Brook.

On the Ural River

Old Woman

Constellation of Dead Brothers

A Crime in Tiflis

Boat on the Ural River

Tête à Tête