Александр Сергеевич Пушкин

James E. Falen

Distinguished by James E. Falen’s masterful use of contemporary American English and handling of rhyme and meter, this new translation of Alexander Pushkin’s verse novel ably provides English readers with the chance to experience the work of the poet Russians regard as the fountainhead of their literature. The introduction includes Falen’s discussion of how his translation compares with those of his predecessors and a general analysis of the poem. Nearly one hundred notes annotate the text.

A Novel in Verse

Eugene Onegin

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

Kevin M. F. Platt

Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Whale and Star Press Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) was a skilled love poet who, through no choice of her own, became a witness to mass violence, a widely recognized exemplar of endurance and moral strength, and finally a symbol of Russian national resilience. At the start of her career, during the final years of the Russian Empire, Akhmatova was a cultural celebrity who fascinated a generation not only with her poetry but also with the drama that she created around herself. After the revolution of 1917, she was attacked as a decadent bourgeois author and driven into silence and obscurity. Living in relative poverty, with her family and friends repeatedly arrested and harassed, and she herself publicly cursed by the representatives of the state, Akhmatova survived the darkest decades of Soviet history. Near the end of her life, when timorous cultural bureaucrats allowed her to reemerge as a public figure, she revealed to readers that even if the “collective” had rejected her as an unworthy member she had continued to write poetry reflecting the trials and calamities of Soviet men and women with greater truth and moral authority than any official poet could attain.

Selected Poems

Intimations

Alexander Pushkin

Caryl Emerson

James E. Falen's verse translation consists of Boris Godunov, A Scene from Faust, the four Little Tragedies and Rusalka. It is accompanied by a penetrating Introduction by Caryl Emerson on Russia's most cosmopolitan playwright.

Boris Godunov and Other Dramatic Works

Boris Pasternak

Collects the author's early poems written in his twenties and his later poems from his famous epic, Dr. Zhivago, written towards the end of his life.

James E. Falen

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