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With Akhmatova at the Black Gates
Stephen Berg
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Description for With Akhmatova at the Black Gates
Paperback. Stephen Berg is the author of "Oblivion", "In It", "New and Selected Poems", "Crow With No Mouth: Ikkyu", and other books of poetry. The recipient of Guggenheim, NEA, and Pew fellowships, he is founder and coeditor of the "American Poetry Review". Num Pages: 86 pages. BIC Classification: DC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 203. Weight in Grams: 104.
There are few precedents for what Stephen Berg has attempted and accomplished in these poems. Not really translations, nor even versions or imitations, Berg's poems are meditations on and through the person and poetry of Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), one of Russia's greatest poets. Akhmatova, whose life began in the Victorian twilight and spanned the days of Revolution and the era of Stalinist persecution, interwove pagan fervor with Christian austerity in poems of passionate longing for the past and lost love. Irresistibly drawn into Akhmatova's orbit, Berg "believed that I was being released from myself by writing these poems when, in ... Read more
There are few precedents for what Stephen Berg has attempted and accomplished in these poems. Not really translations, nor even versions or imitations, Berg's poems are meditations on and through the person and poetry of Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), one of Russia's greatest poets. Akhmatova, whose life began in the Victorian twilight and spanned the days of Revolution and the era of Stalinist persecution, interwove pagan fervor with Christian austerity in poems of passionate longing for the past and lost love. Irresistibly drawn into Akhmatova's orbit, Berg "believed that I was being released from myself by writing these poems when, in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
86
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1981
Condition
New
Number of Pages
86
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252008344
SKU
V9780252008344
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About Stephen Berg
Stephen Berg was a professor at the University of the Arts and a founder of The American Poetry Review. His previous books of poetry include Here, The Daughters, Nothing in the Word, and Grief: Poems and Versions of Poems. He died in 2014.
Reviews for With Akhmatova at the Black Gates
"The only word for the Akhmatova poems is amazing... Berg has done a magnificent job of 'method'
completely projecting himself into the other person. It is hard to believe his versions were done by a man."
Kenneth Rexroth
completely projecting himself into the other person. It is hard to believe his versions were done by a man."
Kenneth Rexroth