EHRENBURG, Il’ia Grigorievich.
Ogon’ [Fire].
[Gomel], “Veka i Dni”, 1919.
Small 8vo, pp. 40; paper browned; original printed wrappers, small blank section of front cover and upper corner of back cover missing.
First edition. Although primarily known in the West as a prose writer and journalist (his novel Ottepel’ (The Thaw, 1954) coined the term for the era in the post-Stalin period), Ehrenburg (1891–1967) in fact wrote poetry all his life. The title for this collection, published in the south-eastern Belarussian town of Gomel, comes from Luke 12:49: ‘I am come to send fire on the earth…’
Kilgour 295; Tarasenkov, p. 424.
