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The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Reeder Ed. Hem
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Description for The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Paperback. Includes more than 800 poems. This book features more than 125 photographs, including a 65 page photo biography, and 'The Artist's Muse' images of Akhmatova in art: memoir by Isaiah Berlin: comprehensive notes to the poems: index of first lines: bibliography. Editor(s): Reeder, Roberta. Translator(s): Hemschemeyer, Judith. Num Pages: 948 pages, 80 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 163 x 50. Weight in Grams: 1316.
From the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians, to the collective suffering of a nation, Anna Akhmatova spoke to, and for, the soul of her people.
This magnificent edition includes: more than 800 poems, half of them available in no other translated edition: translator's preface: biographical introduction by Roberta Reeder: more than 125 photographs, including a 65 page photo biography, and 'The Artist's Muse' images of Akhmatova in art: memoir by Isaiah Berlin: comprehensive notes to the poems: index of first lines: bibliography.
Product Details
Publisher
Canongate Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
1334g
Number of Pages
992
Place of Publication
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780862417161
SKU
V9780862417161
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Ref
99-98
About Reeder Ed. Hem
Through much of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova's poetry gave voice to the deepest yearnings and struggles of the Russian people. Born in 1889, she survived these upheavals, refusing to abandon either Russia or her craft despite vicious attacks on her name and censorship of her work. When committing poems to paper threatened to cause her arrest, a few close...
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We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation... the translations are remarkable. Reading this enormous, impeccable book, we watch her work achieve the supreme goal of lyric poetry: to transfigure loss without belittling it, commemorate love without cooling it, and embody the truth of disparate lives in a single self.
Andrew Motion
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