Current Issue About Editorial Note Archives Submitting Links		Ivan Akhmetyev Translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale if we were fish we would swim if we were birds we would fly but we are people we sleep in *** not at all a particularly important person my intent is to remain so for the foreseeable future   Ivan Akhmetyev, born in 1950, is the author of five books of poetry. The work here is from Poems and Only Poems: Selected Poems, 1968-1992 (Vesy: Moscow, 1993). More recent poems have appeared in some of the foremost Russian poetry journals, including in Arion, Druzhba Narodov, NLO, and Novii Mir. His extensive contributions as a conservator and presenter include co-editing the poetry section of Samizdat Veka (Century of Samizdat) and the posthumous publications of Jan Satunovsky and Mikhail Sokovnin, among others. See his pages at Russkaya Virtualnaya Biblioteka and Vavilon.ru for Russian originals, essays, and Samizdat anthology. Next Poem
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