Anna Akhmatova (1889–1666) is one of Russia’s greatest poets, and perhaps the greatest woman poet in the history of Western culture. The two long poems included in this volume are the major works of Akhmatova’s majestic maturity. Both express her response to life under the Stalinist Terror: Requiem, a single, heart-rending cry; Poem Without a Hero, a symphonic, highly allusive work linking Stalinist Leningrad with Tsarist Petersburg, whose composition occupied the poet, obsessively, over the last twenty-five years of her life. The achievement of these two masterpieces, under conditions of officially imposed silence and terrible suffering, verifies a prophecy made even before the Revolution by her friend the poet Mandelstam, that she would become “a symbol of Russia’s grandeur.”D.M. Thomas, established by three previous volumes of verse as one of the most original and interesting poets now writing in Britain, brings the two poems together for the first time in one volume in English. His version of Poem Without a Hero is the first ever complete and full-scale English verse translation. He employs all his poetic talent in uniquely impressive and powerful versions that pay full attention to the kaleidoscopic variety of effects of the originals. His introduction and notes concisely and absorbingly pinpoint the problems facing the English translator of Akhmatova’s poetry.

Requiem ; and, Poem without a hero

Literature & Fiction

Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna

Poetry

Elek

“Most of the lyrics in this volume are true to themselves as English poems and a nearly astonishing percentage are absolutely faithful, as well, to the Russian originals. . . .The Berlin Wall is as nothing compared to the linguistic boundaries separating East and West. The translations in this volume testify to a long-lasting love affair with these boundaries which has borne rich fruit.” ―Joseph Brodsky Ever since her death in 1966 Anna Akhmatova has been recognized as the greatest modern Russian poet. A rich and representative selection of Akhmatova’s work―from her poignant, deeply personal love poems to her haunting laments for the martyrs of the Stalinist purges―has been newly translated by the American poet Lyn Coffin. In her finely crafted translations Coffin has been uniquely successful in reproducing the directness and striking effects characteristic of Akhmatova’s poetry, and she is the first to remain true to Akhmatova’s rhyme and cadence. The poems are prefaced by a thoughtful introduction by the poet Joseph Brodsky, a friend of Akhmatova in her later years.

Poems of Anna Andreevna Akhmatova

W.W.Norton&Company

Way of all the earth

Secker and Warburg

Text: English, Russian (translation)

Way of All the Earth (English and Russian Edition)

Ohio Univ Pr

Way of All the Earth

History & Criticism

Ohio University Press

Selected Poems

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY CAROL ANN DUFFY Anna Akhmatova is one of the most accomplished and well loved poets Russia has ever produced. Her moving and passionate writing has won her an ardent readership all over the world. This selection, beautifully translated by poet and novelist D.M. Thomas, illustrates her broad scope and brilliant imaginative gifts. It covers both her earlier work and the poems she produced during her persecution by the Russian authorities.

Selected poems

ARDIS

"Poėma bez geroja" (Bausteine zur Geschichte der Literatur bei den Slaven) (German Edition)

Böhlau

Ot t͡s︡arskoselʹskikh lip: Poėzii͡a︡ i proza (Russkai͡a︡ klassika) (Russian Edition)

Ėksmo-press

Poems

Raduga Publishers

Stikhotvorenii͡a︡ i poėmy (Russian Edition)

Lenizdat

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