Poem Without a Hero And Selected Poems |
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Author:
| Akhmatova, Anna Andreevena |
Translator:
| Mayhew, Lenore McNaughton, William |
Introduction by:
| McNaughton, William |
ISBN: | 978-0-932440-51-8 |
Publication Date: | Jul 1989 |
Publisher: | Oberlin College Press
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Book Format: | Hardback |
List Price: | USD $17.95 |
Book Description:
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Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of our century, has, like all Russian poets, proved difficult to translate. These distinctive versions of a broad selection of her work capture her plainness and directness while searching out an analog to her music in the careful and subtle music of American free verse. The result is not a replication of Akhmatova's style but a complement to it that often startles and gratifies with a starkness and beauty all its own.
Anna Akhmatova, one of the great poets of our century, has, like all Russian poets, proved difficult to translate. These distinctive versions of a broad selection of her work capture her plainness and directness while searching out an analog to her music in the careful and subtle music of American free verse. The result is not a replication of Akhmatova's style but a complement to it that often startles and gratifies with a starkness and beauty all its own.