Akhmatova: Poems: Edited by Peter Washington (Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series)

ISBN: 0307264246

Author: Akhmatova, Anna

Condition: New

Here in stunning hardcover are poems from all of Anna Akhmatovas major works-including the magnificent Requiem commemorating the victims of Stalins terror-and some that have been newly translated for this edition.A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova-denounced by the Soviet regime for her eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference-is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was beautiful clarity-in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers Union-condemned as half nun, half harlot. Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russias most beloved poets.Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket.