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Binding: PaperbackDewey 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 Editorial Review: Product Description: ed Roberta Reeder, tr Judith Hemshemeyer Average Rating:
 Rating: - A true melancholic poetic spirit-though entrenchedAA 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 poetryyou 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 criticThis 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 1930sI 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 survivorAkhmatova 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 |
