Black Earth: Selected Poems and Prose

by Osip Mandelstam

Book Overview

Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, developed into "a poetry of high velocity and exposed nerves, becoming more a song than ever before, not a bardlike...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081123097X
• ISBN13: 9780811230971
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.0"