Way of All the Earth - Softcover

Akhmatova, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804012059 ISBN 13: 9780804012058

Publisher: Swallow Press, 2018

Synopsis

Anna Akhmatova is considered one of Russia's greatest poets. Her life encompassed the turmoil of the Russian Revolution and the paranoia and persecution of the Stalinist era: her works embody the complexities of the age. At the same time, she was able to merge these complexities into a single, poetic voice to speak to the Russian people with whom she so closely and proudly identified.

Way of All the Earth contains short poems written between 1909 and 1964, selected from Evening, Rosary, White Flock, Plantain, Anno Domini, Reed, and The Seventh Book. Intricately observed and unwavering in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems represent one of the twentieth century's most powerful voices.

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Review:

"These are among the best, the most authoritative, of ... translations from the Russian, and are from one of the most powerful of the twentieth century Russian poets."--Financial Times

About the Author:

Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) is an iconic figure of twentieth-century Russian literature and one of her era's great poets. Her work has been translated into many languages.

About this edition

• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0804012059
• ISBN 13: 9780804012058
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 98