Intimations - Selected Poetry by Anna Akhmatova (Paperback)

"Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press"
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no choice of her own, became a witness to mass violence, a widely recognized exemplar of endurance and moral strength, and finally a symbol of Russian national resilience. At the start of her career, during the final years of the Russian Empire, Akhmatova was a cultural celebrity who fascinated a generation not only with her poetry but also with the drama that she created around herself.
After the revolution of 1917, she was attacked as a decadent bourgeois author and driven into silence and obscurity. Living in relative poverty, with her family and friends repeatedly arrested and harassed, and she herself publicly cursed by the representatives of the state, Akhmatova survived the darkest decades of Soviet history. Near the end of her life, when timorous cultural bureaucrats allowed her to reemerge as a public figure, she revealed to readers that even if the "collective" had rejected her as an unworthy member she had continued to write poetry reflecting the trials and calamities of Soviet men and women with greater truth and moral authority than any official poet could attain.

General

Imprint:	Whale & Star Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2010
First published:	June 2010
Authors:	Anna Akhmatova
Translators:	James E. Falen
Editors:	Kevin M. F. Platt
Introduction by:	Kevin M. F. Platt
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 9mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-9799752-3-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General
LSN:	0-9799752-3-9
Barcode:	9780979975233

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