The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova
Author: Анна Андреевна Ахматова
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 1076
Release: 1992
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: UCSC:32106012777956

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Akhmatova was recognised as one of the world's great poets after her death in 1966. Refusing to leave Russia when her work was censored and her name attacked she spoke to and for the soul of her people. There are 800 poems and essays in this edition some of which have not been published in English before.

Selected Poems

Selected Poems
Author: Анна Андреевна Ахматова,Robin Kemball,Carl R. Proffer
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1976
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: UOM:39015005088805

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Definitive translations of Akhmatova back in bilingual format.

Anna of All the Russias

Anna of All the Russias
Author: Elaine Feinstein
Publsiher: Vintage
Total Pages: 358
Release: 2007-12-18
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780307424822

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In this definitive biography of the legendary Russian poet, Elaine Feinstein draws on a wealth of newly available material–including memoirs, letters, journals, and interviews with surviving friends and family–to produce a revelatory portrait of both the artist and the woman.Anna Akhmatova rose to fame in the years before World War I, but she would pay a heavy price for the political and personal passions that informed her brilliant poetry. In Anna of All the Russias we see Akhmatova's work banned from 1925 until 1940 and again after World War II. We see her steadfast opposition to Stalin, even while her son was held in the Gulag. We see her abiding loyalty to such friends as Mandelstam, Shostakovich, and Pasternak as they faced Stalinist oppression. And we see how, through everything, Akhmatova continued to write, her poetry giving voice to the Russian people by whom she was, and still is, deeply loved.

Requiem and Poem without a Hero

Requiem and Poem without a Hero
Author: Anna Akhmatova
Publsiher: Ohio University Press
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9780804040884

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With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son’s fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones’ fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova’s beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas’s translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas’s stewardship, Akhmatova’s words ring clear as a bell.

Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova
Author: Roberta Reeder
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 864
Release: 2006-01-01
Genre: Poets, Russian
ISBN: 1932800239

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This riveting biography tells the tragic story of one of our century's great poets. Born to aristocracy, Anna was raised in St. Petersburg in the twilight of the Romanov dynasty. With gift for poetry and prophecy, she became a cult figure among the intelligentsia of the Silver Age. Inclues 39 pages of photos.

Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle

Anna Akhmatova and Her Circle
Author: Konstantin Polivanov
Publsiher: University of Arkansas Press
Total Pages: 317
Release: 1994-01-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781610750196

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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.

The Word that Causes Death s Defeat

The Word that Causes Death s Defeat
Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova,Анна Андреевна Ахматова
Publsiher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 0300103778

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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.

My Half Century

My Half Century
Author: Anna Andreevna Akhmatova
Publsiher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 500
Release: 1997
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0810114852

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"Anna Akhmatova is known as one of twentieth-century Russia's greatest poets, a member of the quartet that included Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Tsvetaeva. This is the first paperback collection of her prose available in English." "The subjects of her memoirs are extraordinary: she describes Modigliani as she knew him in Paris, Blok near the end of his days, and Mandelstam as a close friend. The autobiographical prose section reveals the elusive poet's personality more clearly than any biography could, including her thoughts about how difficult it was to be a poet at a time when women writers were rarely taken seriously." --Book Jacket.