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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 891.713 EAN: 9781590170915 ISBN: 1590170911 Label: NYRB Classics Manufacturer: NYRB Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 192 Publication Date: August 31, 2004 Publisher: NYRB Classics Release Date: August 31, 2004 Studio: NYRB Classics Editorial Review: Product Description: Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror. This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's "Conversation on Dante," an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on the nature of the poetic process. Average Rating:
 Rating: - W. S. Merwin gives us a shockingly original MandelstamI like Merwin's Mandelstam more than that of five other translators with whom I've compared Mandelstam translations. It often takes three readings of a Mandelstam poem to get why it was written---not what it is about, please---but WHY it was written. That is what you look for. After that the sense of the poem will appear. Well, Robert Lowell's imitations of Mandelstam are impressive, especially of the Stalin poem. However, in THE COMPLETE POEMS OF ROBERT LOWELL, there are only a dozen or so Mandelstam ... Read More Rating: - His poems living still MANDELSTAM We do not know the way to the darkness of the word or the excellent silence concealed inside our poems we only know the drumbeat of our own pain and the flickering madness of a land's best lights lost All we are and can be is a poem that will never come home again. Stalin's death is Russia's life The man Mandelstam murdered His poems living still. |
