Andrew Wachtel is Professor of the Humanities at Northwestern University and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the author of ten books and more than a hundred articles on Russian and South Slavic literature, culture, and society. In 2004 he published Anzhelina Polonskaya, A Voice: Selected Poems (Northwestern University Press). In 2013 Polonskaya and Wachtel will release a bilingual edition of Polonskaya’s poems entitled Paul Klee’s Boat (Zephyr Press).