The Word That Causes Death's Defeat

Poems of Memory

By: Anna Akhmatova, Nancy K. Anderson (Translator)

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Paperback | 27 September 2004 | Edition Number 1

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Anna Akhmatova (1889&;1966), one of twentieth-century Russia&;s greatest poets, was viewed as a dangerous element by post-Revolution authorities. One of the few unrepentant poets to survive the Bolshevik revolution and subsequent Stalinist purges, she set for herself the artistic task of preserving the memory of pre-Revolutionary cultural heritage and of those who had been silenced. This book presents Nancy K. Anderson&;s superb translations of three of Akhmatova&;s most important poems: Requiem, a commemoration of the victims of Stalin&;s Terror; The Way of All the Earth, a work to which the poet returned repeatedly over the last quarter-century of her life and which combines Old Russian motifs with the modernist search for a lost past; and Poem Without a Hero, widely admired as the poet&;s magnum opus.
Each poem is accompanied by extensive commentary. The complex and allusive Poem Without a Hero is also provided with an extensive critical commentary that draws on the poet&;s manuscripts and private notebooks. Anderson offers relevant facts about the poet&;s life and an overview of the political and cultural forces that shaped her work. The resulting volume enables English-language readers to gain a deeper level of understanding of Akhmatova&;s poems and how and why they were created.

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"The importance of Akhmatova's works in the Russian poetic tradition can scarcely be exaggerated. These works also hold a place of honor in the history of artistic engagement of moral responsibility."-Olga P. Hasty, Princeton University

"Akhmatova is fortunate indeed to have won the attention of such a gifted translator and scholar. Anderson has succeeded in producing quite literally the best English-language translations of Akhmatova's long poems."-Susan Amert, University of Delaware

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