The Collected Poems of Robert Hines

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“Thank you so much for your very touching poem “My Buddy and I”....
- Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf, U.S. Army

“I had always suspected that you were a Russian poet but did not expect to see you suddenly so famously out of the datcha closet - You will of course give very loud readings in Yeltsinland & otherwise conform to greatness -”
- Gore Vidal, essayist & novelist, (refers to “Sons of Russia”)

“Thank you for your terrific poems....I appreciate your sharing your talent with me. Congratulations on having “Sons of Russia” read in the Russian Congress of People’s Deputies. What a great accomplishment!”
- Candidate for President Bill Clinton (June 18, 1992)

“I wish to congratulate you on your epic (“Sons of Russia”), for your Soul and for your love for us, for our Motherland far away from your side of the world. (refers to the poem being set to music) Our anthem must be such!”
- Viktor Timuhin, composer

“I admire all the things you are achieving, Bob, it will be an honor to read “America, O America” in the U.S. Senate”.
- Alan Cranston, former Senator from California

“We honor and salute you, dear Robert Hines, American poet & now ‘a son of Russia’
- Chief Editor, IZVESTIA newspaper, Moscow, circ. 4,700,000, (upon publication in translation of “Sons of Russia”)