The life of Boris Pasternak culminated in the publication of his successful novel Doctor Zhivago, and his being awarded the 1958 Nobel Prize for Literature, an award he did not accept.

In this collected volume of Pasternak’s poetry Andrei Navrozov seeks to transport the English-language reader into the Russian poet’s mysterious lyric universe. Both inventive and exact, the poems in Second Nature are inspired by life and scenery from the natural world.

Unavailable for some time, Second Nature has been acclaimed by leading Pasternak scholars and enthusiasts.