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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7142
EAN: 9780939010271
Edition: Exp Upd Su
ISBN: 0939010275
Label: Zephyr Press
Manufacturer: Zephyr Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 948
Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Studio: Zephyr Press
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ed Roberta Reeder, tr Judith Hemshemeyer
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A truly amazing and captivating collection of not only all of the Poet's work but also the riveting and heart breaking story of her life and harrowing survival as a writer in Communist Russia.
A must read!
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AA is a true poetic spirit. If you are interested in finding out how true poets get inspired, here is a good example. I would caution readers though, that there is an a sense of pessimism, sadness and a nauseating mood that permeates many of the poems, but there is diversity though. Here is a human being who, in my opinion, found her hope in her sadness, which, interestingly, was and became expressive of a whole generation of the Russian people. Perhaps this is why she is called a prophet in the ... Read More
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you have to read it in Russian. You CANNOT CANNOT CANNOT, and i repeat, CANNOT (!) read it in translation- its like trading feces for gold. That is literally what it sounds like in comparison to the original. The specificity, brutality, the sumptuous tenderness of the Russian language are all but lost in these translations of one of this century's greatest poets. Although you might enjoy what you are reading, given you do not speak Russian- you honestly cannot even BEGIN to touch the greatness of ... Read More
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I am studying Russian writers of the 1930s particularly those who fled to Paris after the Bolshevik Revoltion of 1917. Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva were part of the pre-Revolution intelligencia and suffered terribly from the Reds suppression of artistic freedom. The Complete Poems of AA was helpful to me in this study. The photos, the biography and the dating of individual poems aided my work. Since I am not skilled in Russian, I cannot comment on the quality of the translation but the very moving ... Read More
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This was one of a set of books I gave my daughter so I cannot rate the books so far as contents are concerned. To order it was easy and fast.
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Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7142
EAN: 9780939010271
Edition: Exp Upd Su
ISBN: 0939010275
Label: Zephyr Press
Manufacturer: Zephyr Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 948
Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Studio: Zephyr Press