The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova - Softcover

Akhmatova, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939010275 ISBN 13: 9780939010271

Publisher: Zephyr Press, 2000

Synopsis

Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. The Complete Poems will be the definitive English language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come.

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Review

"We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation... the translations are remarkable. Reading this enormous, impeccable book, we watch her work achieve the supreme goal of lyric poetry: to transfigure loss without belittling it, commemorate love without cooling it, and embody the truth of disparate lives in a single self." (Andrew Motion The Observer)

"Hemschemeyer's versions are the best I have ever seen. This great lilac brick of a book is a stupendous bargain." (Michael Hoffman The Times)

"This edition is an enormous achievement . . . usefully annotated and well illustrated. The text is the definitive English-language edition of Akhmatova . . . a ground-breaking work." (Elizabeth Burns The Scotsman)

"A fitting tribute to one of the greatest poets of the century... this is a volume to be treasured." (The Good Book Guide)

"This is one of the most important publications of the year, if not the decade." (Adam Thorpe Literary Review)

Book Description

The greatest, most comprehensive, and best translated edition of one of the twentieth century's greatest and most relevant poets.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0939010275
• ISBN 13: 9780939010271
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 948
• Editor: Reeder Roberta