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.[...]
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 [...]