Translations by Leo Yankevich include poems by Adam Miekiewicz, Alexander Blok, Ranier Maria Rilke, Leopold Staff, Michail Lermontov, Kamil Norwid, Gottfried Benn, Georg Trakl, Sergei Yesenin, Peter Huchel, Stanislaw Grochowiak, and Jaroslaw Marek Rymkiewicz. Original poems in Polish, Russian and German are included on facing pages, as well as a brief biography of each poet.

The Hypocrisies of Heaven: Poems New and Old collects 131 poems by leading formalist poet Leo Yankevich, winner of the 2016 H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature.

"This long-awaited and very welcome collection, The Hypocrisies of Heaven, gathers together the great bulk of Leo Yankevich's recent poetry, along with some earlier works. It establishes, without any cavil or doubt, his crucial importance as one of the foremost poets of our day, in both style and substance. Together with Tikkum Olam and Journey Late at Night, this collection will be the...

The Hypocrisies of Heaven: Poems New and Old collects 131 poems by leading formalist poet Leo Yankevich, winner of the 2016 H. P. Lovecraft Prize for Literature.

"This long-awaited and very welcome collection, The Hypocrisies of Heaven, gathers together the great bulk of Leo Yankevich's recent poetry, along with some earlier works. It establishes, without any cavil or doubt, his crucial importance as one of the foremost poets of our day, in both style and substance. Together with Tikkum Olam and Journey Late at Night, this collection will be the...