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Black Earth - Selected Poems and Prose (Paperback)
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Black Earth - Selected Poems and Prose (Paperback)
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Loot Price R425
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Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern
Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its
lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the
dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city of
Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph
Brodsky wrote, developed into "a poetry of high velocity and
exposed nerves, becoming more a song than ever before, not a
bardlike but a birdlike song ... something like a goldfinch
tremolo." Peter France-who has been brilliantly translating
Mandelstam's work for decades-draws heavily from Mandelstam's later
poetry written in Voronezh, while also including poems across the
whole arc of the poet's tragically short life, from his early,
symbolist work to the haunting elegies of old Petersburg to his
defiant "Stalin poem." A selection of Mandelstam's prose irradiates
the poetry with warmth and insight as he thinks back on his
Petersburg childhood and contemplates his Jewish heritage, the
sunlit qualities of Hellenism, Dante's Tuscany, and the centrality
of poetry in society.
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