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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7142
EAN: 9780939010271
ISBN: 0939010275
Label: Zephyr Press
Manufacturer: Zephyr Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 948
Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Sales Rank: 74198
Studio: Zephyr Press
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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.
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Rating: - A true melancholic poetic spirit-though entrenched
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
Rating:  - if you want to read Russian poetry
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
Rating:  - Second book critic
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.
Rating: - Russian Poets of the 1930s
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
Rating: - Somehow a survivor
Akhmatova was one of the few unrepentant Acemist poets to survive Russia's Bolshevik revolution and subsequant Stalinist takeover and purges. She was seen by authorities as a dangerous element, related to the pre-revolutionary order. Somehow, even as her fellow poets - including friend Osip Mandlestam and husband Nikolay Gumilov - were executed, exiled, sent to camps, or fled, she managed to survive - outliving Stalin himself. Her poems range from the early tales of love and unrequitation, to the tormented ... Read More
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Dewey Decimal Number: 891.7142
EAN: 9780939010271
ISBN: 0939010275
Label: Zephyr Press
Manufacturer: Zephyr Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 948
Publication Date: September 01, 2000
Publisher: Zephyr Press
Sales Rank: 74198
Studio: Zephyr Press