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Virginia's Sisters (Paperback)
Virginia Woolf, Zelda Fitzgerald, Anna Akhmatova, Marina TSvetaeva, Gabriela Mistral, …
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A unique anthology of short stories and poetry by feminist
contemporaries of Virginia Woolf, who were writing about work,
discrimination, war, relationships and love in the early part of
the 20th Century. Includes works by English and American writers
Zelda Fitzgerald, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Radclyffe Hall,
Katherine Mansfield, Alice Dunbar Nelson, Edith Wharton, and
Virginia Woolf, alongside their recently rediscovered 'sisters'
from around the world. This book offers a diverse and international
array of over 20 literary gems from women writers living in
Bulgaria, Chile, China, Egypt, France, Italy, Palestine, Romania,
Russia, Spain and Ukraine.
From the artistic passion of the St Petersburg poets and bohemians,
to the collective suffering of a nation through this turbulent
century, Akhmatova spoke to, and for, the soul of her people. Born
in 1889, Anna survived upheavals, refusing to abandon either Russia
or her craft despite vicious attacks on her name and censorship of
her work. When committing poems to paper threatened to cause her
arrest, a few close friends faithfully memorized her lines. By the
time she died in 1966, Anna was recognized as one of the world's
great poets. This book contains 800 of her poems, an extensive
photo-essay, a preface by the translator, an introduction Anatoly
Naiman (Akhmatova's literary agent during the 1960s), and a reprint
of Isaiah Berlin's memoir of Anna from his book "Personal
Impressions".
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Selected Poems (Paperback)
Anna Akhmatova; Introduction by Carol Ann Duffy
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Poetry. Translated from Russian by Judith Hemschemeyer. This book
contains more than one hundred poems from The Complete Poems of
Anna Akmatova, which was named of the best books of 1990 by the New
York Times. Akhmatova first achieved fame as an icon of
pre-Revolutionary literary society. In the post revolution era she
became the unofficial spokesperson for her fellow countrymen who
suffered through Stalinism. This book features poems both
originally written in Russian and English and represents the full
span of the poet's career. Also included is a translator's
introduction and a preface to Akhmatova's life by Roberta Reeder
and notes from Hemschemeyer's definitive translation.
From her appearance in a small magazine in 1906 to her death in
1965, Anna Akhmatova was a dominant presence in Russian literary
life. But this friend of Pasternak and Mandelstam was a poet in a
country where poetry was literally a matter of life and death, as
she found when Mandelstam and her own husband, Gumilyev, were
executed, and her son imprisoned for many years in the Gulag.
Akhmatova's first collection, Evening, appeared in 1912. Rosary
(1914) made her a household name. After the Revolution she went in
and out of favour with the authorities, who sometimes allowed her
to publish, sometimes banned her work. She is now most celebrated
in the West for Poem Without A Hero and Requiem, a sequencemourning
the victims of Stalin's Terror which was only published (and then
outside Russia) in 1963.
Anna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966) is considered by
many to be one of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age. One
of the forefront leaders of the Acmeism movement, which focused on
rigorous form and directness of words, she was a master of
conveying raw emotion in her portrayals of everyday situations. Her
works range from short lyric love poetry to longer, more complex
cycles, such as Requiem, a tragic depiction of the Stalinist
terror. During the time of heavy censorship and persecution, her
poetry gave voice to the Russian people. To this day, she remains
one of Russia's most beloved poets and has left a lasting
impression on generations of poets that came after her. Rosary,
published in 1914, is Akhmatova's second book, and one of her most
popular collections. After its publication, Akhmatova became a
household name and further established her place among the greatest
Russian poets.
Anna Akhmatova (June 23, 1889 - March 5, 1966) is considered by
many to be one of the greatest Russian poets of the Silver Age.
Although true fame and recognition did not come until her later,
Evening, her first poetry collection, had caught the attention of
many prominent literary critics of the time and helped to solidify
her career as a writer. One of the forefront leaders of the Acmeism
movement, which focused on rigorous form and directness of words,
she was a master of conveying raw emotion in her portrayals of
everyday situations. Her works range from short lyric love poetry
to longer, more complex cycles, such as Requiem, a tragic depiction
of the Stalinist terror. During the time of heavy censorship and
persecution, her poetry gave voice to the Russian people. To this
day, she remains one of Russia's most beloved poets and has left a
lasting impression on generations of poets that came after her.
Witness to the international and domestic chaos of the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888-1966) chronicled Russia's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Her genius is now universally acknowledged, and recent biographies attest to a remarkable resurgence of interest in her poetry in this country. Here is the essence of Akhmatova - a landmark selection and translation, including excerpts from "Poem with a Hero."
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.
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966) had a life that spanned prerevolution
Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she
maintained a restrained, graceful, yet muscular style that could
grab a reader by the throat, or the heart, at a moment's notice.
Her themes include romantic yearning and frustration, the pull of
the sensory, the emotional power of the mundane, and her belief
that a Russian poet could only produce poetry in Russia. By
reputation, both Akhmatova's poems and the poet herself are defined
by tragedy and beauty in equal measure, and she is for many the
quintessential twentieth-century Russian poet. You Will Hear
Thunder spans Akhmatova's very early career into the early 1960s.
These poems were written through her bohemian prerevolution days,
her many marriages, the terror and privation of life under Stalin,
and her later years, during which she saw her work once again
recognized by the Soviet state. Intricately observed and unwavering
in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems
represent one of the twentieth century's most powerful voices.
"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.
Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), one of twentieth-century Russia's
greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by
post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to
survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges,
she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of
pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been
silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson's superb
translations of three of Akhmatova's most important poems: Requiem,
a commemoration of the victims of Stalin's Terror; The Way of All
the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the
last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian
motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without
a Hero, widely admired as the poet's magnum opus. Each poem is
accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem
Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical
commentary that draws on the poet's manuscripts and private
notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet's life and
an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her
work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain
a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova's poems and how and
why they were created.
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