Regina Derieva is one of Russia's leading contemporary poets and her new collection, "The Sum Total of Violations", represents her at the height of her poetic powers. She has strong affiliations with Swedish culture and with that of the Middle East Israel and Palestine, and her work has received commendations from a number of prominent authors including the late Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky and the contemporary Australian poet, Les Murray. In her writing, and also in person, she embodies the new internationalism of poetry that has erupted since the fall of the Soviet Union and the opening of Eastern Europe. Living in Sweden, writing in her native Russian, translated into various languages and herself a translator of American, Australian and British poetry, she represents a poetry freed of national and cultural boundaries and addressed to an audience linked by a larger vision of human possibilities.

Table of Contents:
Translator's Preface. Introduction. Part I: Tattooed Mnemosyne, A dead person - A" , Days and the transit system grind their teeth - A", Mea maxima culpa, There was no need to learn the language - A", Estrangement, All that remains - A", The sea casts up - A", When you burn - A", There was still a street - A", From Under Aesop's Constellation, On the Nature of Desire, An operatically long winter - A", Here stands the Stone NikeA", I curled up and now I'm asleep - A", Archangelengland,. Part II: Vocabulary, Den-adaptation, The Power of Heaviness, From Toledo, Numbers and Letters, Routine, Death Pangs, Sorrowful Leaf, To a Friend in Knight's Clothing, Devaluation, Vital Signs, Ab Ovo, Prime Colours, Apriori Knowledge, Passed Over in Silence, On Riddling Riddles, Fruits of Education, Service, Unity of Forms, Yellow and Red, On the Nature of Memory, Everything the 12 Caesars did not get to say, An Unfortunate Incident, Apparent Movement, Fear, Unattainability. Two Positions, Experience, Grasp, Absense of Unity, On the Endlessness of War, Obstacles, Incompatibility, Definition of Obviousness, The Sum Total of Violations, Expectation, Many subjects go to make up a face - A", Stability, Case choices. Part III: Points of Expansion i.e. an Island, History of a Postcard: 1985, Action, connected to Meaning, Truth of Life, Production Tools, Geography of the Brain, Reduced World. Biographical Notes.