| Poems of Osip Mandelstam Contributor(s): Mandelstam, Osip (Author), France, Peter (Translator) |
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ISBN: 081122290X ISBN-13: 9780811222907 Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation OUR PRICE: $9.86 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Series: New Directions Poetry Pamphlet |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.9" W x 8.8" (0.26 lbs) 64 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Peter France writes in his foreword: "I have always been conscious that Mandelstam was an outstanding figure, arguably the outstanding Russian poet of the twentieth century. This is a personal selection from the poetry -- poems that for one reason or another I wanted to translate. I have tried to make it reasonably representative of different strands and periods in his work, with a certain stress on the brilliant and fragmentary Voronezh poems." |
Contributor Bio(s): France, Peter: - Peter France has published widely on French, Russian, and comparative literature. New Directions publishes his translations of Gennady Aygi.Mandelstam, Osip: - Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (1891-1938) was born in Warsaw and grew up in a Jewish family in St. Petersburg. After a nomadic life as a translator and writer of children's books, marriage to Nadezhda Khazina, and exile, he was arrested, sentenced to hard labor, and died in eastern Siberia, leaving behind some of the most glorious poems and essays ever written. |