A Moongate in My Wall

A Moongate in My Wall is a collection of poems and translations by a remarkable yet little-known bilingual Russian-American poet, Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994). Born in New York to a Russian mother and an American father and related to the famous Custis family, she lived in St. Petersburg, Harbin, Beijing, Shanghai, and San Francisco, published three books of poetry, and left many unpublished works. Her fine poetic heritage is reproduced here in its entirety.

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The Editor: Olga Bakich has a Ph.D. in Slavic languages and literatures from the University of Alberta. She has taught Russian language and literature at Australian National University and at University of Toronto. In addition to many articles, she is the author of Harbin Russian Imprints: Bibliography as History, 1898-1962 (2002) and co-author, with Professor V. Kreyd, of Russkaia poeziia Kitaia (Russian Poetry of China) (2001).

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A Moongate in My Wall is a collection of poems and translations by a remarkable yet little-known bilingual Russian-American poet, Mary Custis Vezey (1904-1994). Born in New York to a Russian mother and an American father and related to the famous Custis family, she lived in St. Petersburg, Harbin, Beijing, Shanghai, and San Francisco, published three books of poetry, and left many unpublished works. Her fine poetic heritage is reproduced here in its entirety.