Boris Nartsissov

Boris Anatolevich Nartsissov was a Russian émigré poet.

Biography

Nartsissov was born in the small village of Naskaftym to a family of medical doctors. His family fled the advancing Red Army to Estonia in 1919, where he studied at the University of Tartu and received a degree in chemistry. During World War II, he was moved to a displaced persons camp near Munich. After the end of the war, he lived in Tübingen until 1949, when he moved to Australia while working for the U.S. government as a chemist. From 1953 to 1959, he lived in Columbus, Ohio, after which he moved to Washington, D.C., where he remained until his death.
While living in the U.S., Nartsissov published six volumes of poetry and one short novel. He translated from both Estonian and English into Russian. His literary themes include mysticism, the supernatural, and the double. He favored ternary metres, particularly anapaestic.

Selected publications

1958 Stikhi '; "Poems"
1961 Golosa '; "Voices"
1965 Pamjat '; "Memory"
1969 Pod'jom '; "Ascent"
1974 Shakhmaty '; "Chess"
1978 Zvjozdnaja Ptitsa ''; "Star Bird"
1983 Pis'mo Samomu Sebe ; "A Letter to Myself"