Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

Includes selections from Evening, Rosary, White flock, Plantain, Anno Domini, Reed, The Seventh book.

Selected Poems

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.

The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Akhmatova, Poems

You Will Hear Thunder

REQUIEM. Bilingue russe/français

Eighty-eight Poems

"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.

Selected Prose

My Half Century

Анна Андреевна Ахматова

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.

Poem Without a Hero and Selected Poems

Definitive translations of Akhmatova back in bilingual format.

Selected Poems of Anna Akhmatova

Requiem and Poem Without a Hero

Requiem

This comprehensive edition of Russia's greatest modern poet, Anna Akhmatova (1899-1966), includes the complete texts of her major works Requiem, commemorating all of Stalin's victims, and Poem Without a Hero. Akhmatova published her first book of poems in 1912, and in the same year founded the Acmeist movement with her husband, the poet Gumilev. Her intense, highly personal love lyrics were later attacked as anti-revolutionary, and in 1925 her poetry was banned. Gumilev was shot in 1921 for alleged involvement in an anti-Bolshevik plot, and in the years of terror which followed under Stalin, Akhmatova was persecuted for her work along with fellow poets Mandelstam, who died in a camp, and Tsvetaeva, who committed suicide. She was able to publish some work during the war, but in 1946 she again came under attack, this time from Zhdanov, who denounced her with Pasternak and others for trying to 'poison the minds' of Soviet youth. These were attacks on her published work. What she was writing - but could not publish - was far more dangerous. For she had entered her years of silence. As she fought for her son's release from prison, she was writing her greatest poetry: the cycle Requiem, which commemorated all of Stalin's victims, and Poem without a hero, which she began in 1940 and worked on for over 20 years. All she wrote she committed to memory. Several trusted friends also memorised her poems, among them Mandelstam's widow Nadezhda. She wrote nothing down, and so survived, the people's conscience, the one who kept 'the great Russian word' alive.

Anna Akhmatova is not only Russia's finest woman poet but perhaps the greatest in the history of Western culture. Selected Poemsbrings together all D. M. Thomas's acclaimed translations of Akhmatova's poems. It includes Requiem, her poem of the Stalinist Terror which 'belongs to a select number of sacred texts which, like American Indian dream-poems but for more sinister reasons, were considered too momentous, too truthful, to write down'; and Poem Without a Hero, described by Thomas as 'a superimposition of joyous, talented, light-hearted Petersburg upon tormented Leningrad - or vice versa . . . Akhmatova's love poem to her city'.

Seçilmiş şiirler

Dans l'extraordinaire pléiade des poètes russes de la première moitié du XXe siècle (Maïakovski, Tsétaïéva, Khlebnikov, Essenine, Mandelstam, Pasternak, Blok, notamment...), Anna Akhmatova occupe une place exceptionnelle : tout d'abord par la longévité et l'ampleur d'une oeuvre tout entière occupée par l'amour et l'émotion ; ensuite, par l'accumulation tragique des événements qui marquent sa vie, par sa résistance et son courage, par son ancrage dans l'histoire de son pays (Je vis là où mon peuple souffre, dit-elle, refusant de quitter l'URSS) ; et enfin, par l'écriture du Requiem, l'un des grands poèmes de la période, rédigé dans des conditions dramatiques au cours des années les pires du stalinisme. Henri Deluy.

Le requiem & autres poèmes choisis

Jeanne Rude

une étude, avec un choix de poèmes une chronologie bibliographique

Anna Akhmatova

Akhmatova was unquestionably one of the great poets of the 20th century. These exquisite translations convey the subtle beauties and daring associations of a poet whose long life proved poetry's capacity for survival and subversive resistance to tyranny.

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

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