Products tagged with Poetry

In 1945 Isaiah Berlin met Anna Akhmatova almost by chance in what was then Leningrad. The brief time they spent together one long November evening was a transformng experience for both, and has become a cardinal moment in modern literary history.

Osip Mandelshtam, arguably the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century, died in a Stalinist prison camp at the age of 47. This volume collects the best of his work, including poems he was unable to publish in his lifetime.

A poem by Alexander Solzhenitsyn from 1950. 

In the years before the 1917 Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate and perform.

A Part of Speech contains poems from the years 1965-1978, translated by various hands.
"Like the Auden who was, no less than Lowell, his champion, Brodsky is a master of traditional forms." - The New York Times Book Review

The Fire Horse brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia’s most celebrated poets teamed up with some of its finest artists.

Osip Mandelstam is a central figure in both Russian and world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the 20th century.