Tributes to Stephen F. Cohen

Yevgeny Yevtushenko:

Things are not calm and peaceful for Steve Cohen
The fate of Russia always troubles him

Ever and anew it brings him woe
Like a tormenting love of long ago

Through his rusty, Biblical unshavenness
Glimmer ideals that simply were not realized

His own Russia he loves, without concealing
Scorn for the Russia of bureaucrats' wheeling and dealing

In return, through some wizardry, he received
A daughter from a Russian poet's kiss

On the navel of his charming wife Katrina
vanden Heuvel, one of politics' sheer wonders.

Watch out, Calvin Trillin. You've got competition.