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Title: Poems of Akhmatova : Izbrannye Stikhi by Anna Akhmatova, Stanley Kunitz, Max Hayward ISBN: 0-395-86003-2 Publisher: Mariner Books Pub. Date: 30 May, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An outstanding translation of a marvelous poet
Comment: This is a marvelous book. It is extremely difficult to accurately capture the flavor of the original writing in translation, but Kunitz has done this and more - the English itself is poetry. The book is dual language, so readers of Russian can read the original next to the English. Both are excellent.
The selection is fairly representative of Akhmatova's life work, with early poems from 1909, through her affair with the poet Blok in the teens, the Terror and War, to her deathbed in 1961. I particularly enjoyed the translation of the epic "Requiem". Without a doubt, this is the best English version I have ever read. My only complaint is its berevity - at 40 poems, it merely whets the readers appetite for more - a pity, given the outstanding nature of both poet and translator.
For those who are not familiar with Anna Akhmatova, this is a gem. If you have read some of her work, this is a must-have volume. Enjoy!
Rating: 5
Summary: The perfect introductory volume.........
Comment: This is the volume that introduced me to the works of Anna Akhmatova. After having read this in one evening, I could not sleep - I was so moved by her poetry. The translation must have captured her heart and soul because it certainly captured mine - it inspired me to get up in the middle of the night and draw pictures to go with what I had read. I understood at once the love the Russian people have for her. Since then, I have gobbled up everything translated into English that I can find, but I still think this little volume is the best of all and return to it again and again. Enjoy......
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Title: Osip Mandelstam: Fifty Poems by Osip Mandelstam ISBN: 0892550066 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: May, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: Selected Poems (Twentieth-Century Classics) by Marina Tsvetaeva, Elaine Feinstein ISBN: 0140187596 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: C. P. Cavafy: Collected Poems by C. P. Cavafy, George Savidis, Edmund Keeley, Philip Sherrard ISBN: 0691015376 Publisher: Princeton University Press Pub. Date: 08 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Odes and Epodes of Horace by Horace ISBN: 0226106799 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1960 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: Poems of Nazim Hikmet, Revised and Expanded Edition by Nazim Hikmet, Randy Blasing, Mutlu Konuk Blasing, Mutlu Konuk ISBN: 0892552743 Publisher: Persea Books Pub. Date: May, 2002 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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