Poems of Osip Mandelstam: 16 (New Directions Poetry Pamphlet) - Softcover

Mandelstam, Osip; France, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081122290X ISBN 13: 9780811222907

Publisher: New Directions, 2014

Synopsis

Peter France writes in his foreword: “I have always been conscious that Mandelstam was an outstanding figure, arguably the outstanding Russian poet of the twentieth century. This is a personal selection from the poetry ― poems that for one reason or another I wanted to translate. I have tried to make it reasonably representative of different strands and periods in his work, with a certain stress on the brilliant and fragmentary Voronezh poems.”

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About the Authors

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (1891–1938) was born in Warsaw and grew up in a Jewish family in St. Petersburg. After a nomadic life as a translator and writer of children’s books, marriage to Nadezhda Khazina, and exile, he was arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and died in eastern Siberia, leaving behind some of the most glorious poems and essays ever written.

Peter France  has published widely on French, Russian, and comparative literature, including the Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation. New Directions publishes his translations of the Chuvash poet Gennady Aygi: Field-Russia and Child-And-Rose.

Edition details

• Publisher: New Directions
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 081122290X
• ISBN 13: 9780811222907
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 64