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 ti[...]
"Poema bez geroja" Anny Akhmatovoj, nad kotoroj ona rabotala chetvert veka, - odno iz samykh zagadochnykh proizvedenij russkoj literatury. V nej zashifrovany imena i sobytija, ne znaja o kotorykh, chitatel vrjad li sumeet proniknut v glubinu teksta i ponjat ego istinnyj smysl. Vydajuschajasja aktris[...]
A definitive body of work by one of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century includes poetry from all of her major collections, including "Requiem," a memorial to the victims of Stalin's terror, as well as twenty poems that have been newly translated for this collection.[...]
A definitive portrait of the legendary Russian poet reexamines the dramatic life of an extraordinary writer, detailing the personal and political passions that informed her poetry, the banning of her work before and after World War II, her three turbulent marriages, her anti-Stalinist beliefs, her f[...]
This title features an introduction by Carol Ann Duffy. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M[...]
Includes more than 800 poems. This book features more than 125 photographs, including a 65 page photo biography, and 'The Artist's Muse' images of Akhmatova in art: memoir by Isaiah Berlin: comprehensive notes to the poems: index of first lines: bibliography.[...]
A companion to "The Complete Poems," this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. "We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatov[...]
Celebrating three Russian literary greats--Alexander Pushkin, Anna Akhmatova, and Andrei Voznesenski--this collection of their writing presents new translations of a combined 34 poems and includes both Russian and English text. A handful of masterful illustrations are also included, opening an artis[...]
This powerful collection of fifteen memoirs by and about one of the greatest poets of our time weaves an unforgettable drama of friendship, grace, and courage, through long years of heartbreak and hunger.[...]
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 h[...]
This book arose from several years of research on Akhmatova. Anna Akhmatova is one of the most acclaimed poets of the twentieth century. Her career falls into two distinct periods, an 'earlier' and a 'later', the dividing line being her period of relative silence between 1925 and 1940. As is often o[...]
This superb introduction to the work of the famous Russian poet Anna Akhmatova (1886-1966) begins with an account of her life in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg and Stalinist Russia, and focuses principally on her poetry. Incorporating all recent scholarship, the author traces the way in which Akhm[...]
Zvonok v chetyre utra ne predveschaet nichego khoroshego. Osobenno esli na dvore 1946 god, vy psikhiatr, a golos v trubke poruchaet opredelit, sklonna li k samoubijstvu opalnaja poetessa Anna Akhmatova... Teper u Tatjany Nikitinoj est vsego neskolko dnej, chtoby vynesti verdikt, a zaodno i ponjat, c[...]
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova - bolshoj russkij poet. "Menja, kak reku, surovaja epokha povernula..." - tak napisala ona o svoej zhizni, prishedshejsja na edva li ne samyj tragicheskij period nashej istorii. Poezii Akhmatovoj svojstvenna "nebyvalaja ostrota naprjazhennogo perezhivanija, glubina skorbi, v[...]
Imenno Anna Akhmatova vpervye osoznanno zagovorila o ljubvi ot litsa zhenschiny. Nesluchajno "Zlatoustoj Annoj vseja Rusi" nazvala Marina Tsvetaeva Annu Akhmatovu, ved iskrennij interes k ee poezii prisusch ogromnomu kolichestvu ee poklonnikov. Kniga predstavljaet odno iz naibolee polnykh sobranij s[...]
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 th[...]
Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova's work-from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the Stalinist purges-has been newly translated by the [...]