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Requiem and Poem without a Hero
Anna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas
- 78 pages
- English
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Requiem and Poem without a Hero
Anna Akhmatova, D. M. Thomas
About This Book
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 waitâlining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen monthsâfor 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. Petersburgâhistorically a seat of art and cultureâinto 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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1940â1962
Leningrad â Tashkent â Moscow
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Poem in a Strange Language
- Introduction
- Requiem
- Poem without a Hero
- Notes
- Appendix: Three lyrics from the time of the âPetersburg masqueradeâ