Current Issue About Editorial Note Archives Submitting Links		Mikhail Faynerman Translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale *** Freud's characters entirely resemble real people- they envy, bicker, and bluster: and what is it that they want from their master? Did he not tell them how difficult it is together… *** each of us smoked by his lonesome inflating his fourteen years up blowing fire through the nervous system blowing smoke with all our might: Lord, please help me….   Mikhail Faynerman was born in Moscow in 1946 and died in 2003 after a protracted and difficult illness. In parallel with his interest in Zen Buddhism and its literature, from the early 1970s he began to develop a poetic style unique in Russian, following in the tradition of such American poets as Ezra Pound, W. C. Williams, and Allen Ginsberg. His only published book was The Finch in Flight (Moscow: Geo, 1995). Next Poem
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