Description
Osip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundredsa crucial instigator of the revolution of the word that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With Stolen Air, Christian Wiman, editor of POETRY, Americas oldest and most prestigious magazine of verse, offers a new selection and translation of Mandelstams poetryfrom his hard-edged and highly formal early poems to his almost savagely musical later worksfor a new generation to be moved by, marvel at, and appreciate.
Author: Christian Wiman, Osip Mandelstam
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/27/2012
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.37w x 0.39d
ISBN: 9780062099426
Language: English
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