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Requiem and Poem without a Hero Paperback – March 26, 2018

by Anna Akhmatova (Author)
4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
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With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova’s best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin’s regime.

Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing “Requiem” in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother’s wait—lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months—for news of her son’s fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones’ fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote “Poem without a Hero” over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova’s beloved city of St. Petersburg—historically a seat of art and culture—into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas’s translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas’s stewardship, Akhmatova’s words ring clear as a bell.

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    78 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    Swallow Press
  4. Publication date
    March 26, 2018
  5. Dimensions
    5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0804011958
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0804011952
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“Translations of the ‘two greatest achievements’ of Akhmatova’s maturity.… A decided addition to any library.”—Choice

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Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is an iconic figure of twentieth-century Russian literature and one of her era’s great poets. Her work has been translated into many languages.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Swallow Press; Reprint edition (March 26, 2018)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 78 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0804011958
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0804011952
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.2 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.4 x 8.5 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars 40 ratings

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So terrifying but beautifully written and addicting to read and understand the lives within the words.
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Cat Turner
5.0 out of 5 stars A monumental achievement.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 9, 2023
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This poem is as important, I think, as Eliot's Wasteland or Plath's Ariel. Both a brilliant poetic achievement in intellectual and aesthetic terms, and a brilliant act of resistance in the face of Stalinist/Leninist tyranny. It's monumental work from a monumental poet.

As an edition, this one is a bit flopsy and could do with a better introduction.
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