This poet compared TV antennas to "crucifixions without Christ" in "Girl Beatnik," and he wrote that the title figure "like a
This poet compared TV antennas to "crucifixions without Christ" in "Girl Beatnik," and he wrote that the title figure "like a seasoned lion / buys bread in the shop" and asks for it to be wrapped like a book in "Epistle to Neruda."  This man describes a woman who gives "herself entire to the rain" while berry picking in a poem which claims "as we get older we get honester" and relates the poet's trip to his boyhood home.  In another poem, he refers to a certain figure as "mute and dread" and claims he "still lurks in the mausoleum."   This author of "The Heirs of Stalin" and "Zima Junction" wrote that "we are denied the leaves, we are denied the sky" in a poem in which he compares himself to Dreyfus and to Anne Frank.  For 10 points, name this Russian poet who wrote that "no monument stands over" the title ravine in a poem which inspired a Shostakovich symphony, "Babi Yar."
This poet compared TV antennas to "crucifixions without Christ" in "Girl Beatnik," and he wrote that the title figure "like a seasoned lion / buys bread in the shop" and asks for it to be wrapped like a book in "Epistle to Neruda."  
Yevgeny Yevtushenko