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 Russia's
most beloved poets.
Here are poems from all her major works--including the magnificent
"Requiem" commemorating the victims of Stalin's terror--and some
that have been newly translated for this edition.
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