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Akhmatova Anna
Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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A companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet’s most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer’s translations. "We needn’t worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation."—The Observer (London) "In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original." —New York Times Book Review Judith Hemschemeyer began translating Akhmatova in 1976. She is a professor at the University of Central Florida, and has published several books of poetry and translations. Roberta Reeder has taught at Harvard and Yale and is the author of Akhmatova’s biography, Anna Akhmatova: Poet & Prophet. Also available by Anna Akhmatova
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
PB $29.00, 0-939010-27-5 • CUSA A companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments in bilingual format, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. "We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation." -The Observer (London) "In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original." -New York Times Book Review
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
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Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years. This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. The Complete Poems will be the definitive English language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come.
Anna Akhmatova (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets)
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A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was “beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers’ Union—condemned as “half nun, half harlot.” Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia’s most beloved poets. Here are poems from all her major works—including the magnificent “Requiem” commemorating the victims of Stalin’s terror—and some that have been newly translated for this edition.
Selected Poems
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Anna Akhmatova is identified, along with Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, as one of the four leading poets of Twentieth-Century Russian literature. Her poetry, classically rhymed and metered but also laconic and highly elliptical, is deeply engaged with predecessors such as Horace, Dante, Shakespeare, Byron, Dostoevsky, Annensky and above all Pushkin, and also with contemporaries such as Mandelstam, T.S. Eliot, and Gumilev, her husband, who was persecuted and finally executed by Stalin. The poems collected, including the masterworks "Requiem" and "Poem without a Hero," conjure intimations of the infinite and profound emotional depth through meditations on the perception of everyday objects and evocative settings, forming a powerful record of spiritual resilience. With an introductory essay by Walter Arndt, acclaimed translator of Russian literature, and translations by Arndt, Robin Kemball, and Carl R. Proffer, this volume provides the most authoritative and readable versions of Akhmatova’s poetry in English.
Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova
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In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I, but she would pay a heavy price for the political and personal passions that informed her brilliant poetry. In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stalin, even while her son was held in the Gulag. We see her abiding loyalty to such friends as Mandelstam, Shostakovich, and Pasternak as they faced Stalinist oppression. And we see how, through everything, Akhmatova continued to write, her poetry giving voice to the Russian people by whom she was, and still is, deeply loved.
The Akhmatova Journals: Volume 1: 1938-1941
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Anna Akhmataova's friend Lydia Chukovskaya kept intimate diaries of her conversations with the great poet. This book offers a rare look into the day-to-day life of Akhmatova: her fortunes and sorrows, the evoluation of her writing, her inspiration and imagination. Chukovskaya herself was a major Russian writer; her memoir is a testament to a poet's life and the cultural life of a nation.
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Small Talk: Anne Michaels - Financial Times
Financial Times, UK - May 23, 2009
Financial TimesSmall Talk: Anne MichaelsDostoevsky, Tolstoy and Anna Akhmatova; John Berger, Shakespeare, Joyce and the American poet Charles Wright. When I'm working in the middle of the night and my children are safely in bed. What novel would you give a child to introduce them to
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Danger, Diamonds In A Dazzling Word Symphony - KUAR
KUAR, AR - May 21, 2009
Danger, Diamonds In A Dazzling Word SymphonyHe also translated Joseph Brodsky and Anna Akhmatova's poems into Spanish. The impressive intellectual agility his background presupposes is evident in Rex. Indeed, it was heralded in his first novel translated into English, Nocturnal Butterflies of
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Jay Parini: A survivor of the Armenian massacre turns trauma to ... - History News Network
History News Network, WA - May 19, 2009
Jay Parini: A survivor of the Armenian massacre turns trauma to It's a memoir that will fit well on a shelf beside the poems of Anna Akhmatova and the memoirs of Vasily Grossman, Primo Levi, and Elie Wiesel. And it defines what we have come to think of as "Holocaust memoirs." It seems strangely ironic that,
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Lettre à Gabriel Matzneff - l'Humanité
l'Humanité, France - May 10, 2009
Lettre à Gabriel Matzneff pour laquelle il avait le plus grand respect ou qui économisait pour que je puisse acheter tous les livres que je souhaitais, notamment ceux d'un certain Gabriel Matzneff dont les pages me faisaient découvrir Pétrone, Byron ou Anna Akhmatova.
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Un poète contre Staline - MediaPart
MediaPart, France - May 12, 2009
Un poète contre StalineSes amis écrivains, sublime Anna Akhmatova, aveugle Boris Pasternak, qui veut croire encore et toujours que Staline n'est pas au courant des déportations et des purges orchestrées par les tchékistes. Ces jours tragiques qui virent la mise au ban du
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