Background
Arvo Mets was born in Tallinn to a Russian Orthodox father and a Lutheran mother.
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He was educated at the Saint St. Petersburg Librarian University and later at the Literary Institute in Moscow.
Career
He is regarded as a master of Russian free verse. He also translated works of Estonian poets into Russian. He lived most of his life in Moscow where he edited a few literary magazines.
From 1975 till 1991 he worked as an editor for the “New world” magazine (rus “Новый мир”).
Arvo Mets organised poetry reading in the “Taganka” literary club (rus “На Таганке”). During his lifetime he published three collections of his poems.
The book of his selected poems appeared posthumously, in 2006. A number of his poems have been translated into English, Dutch, Hindi, Serbian and some other languages.
Resemblance
Young girls
resemble in looks
the sky,
the wind,
the clouds above.
Later these girls make
devoted wives
whose faces remind us
of houses,
furniture,
carrier bags. resemble in looks
the sky,
the wind
and streamlets in spring. (translated by Anatoly Kudryavitsky)
“X-Time”, Moscow, 1989
“The Anthology of Russian Verse Libre”, Moscow, 1991
"A Night in the Nabokov Hotel: 20 contemporary poets from Russia", Dedalus Press, Dublin, 2006. Poems of Arvo Mets in English.
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Nationality
Estonia Russia Soviet Union