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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

Merwin, W. S.
Brown, Clarence
Mandelstam, Osip

Paperback

Series: New York Review Books Classics

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

Publisher Price: $16.95

ISBN10: 1590170911
ISBN13: 9781590170915
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: Aug 31 2004
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.43 Width: 5.22 Depth: 8.06
Language: English
Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the revolution of the word that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror.

This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's Conversation on Dante, an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on the nature of the poetic process.

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