The Moscow & Voronezh Notebooks: Poems 1933-1937

by Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, with a prophetic understanding of its suffering, which he transformed into luminous poetry. Childish and wise, joyous and angry, at once complex and simple, he was sustained for 20 years by his wife and memoirist Nadezhda Mandelstam, who became, with Anna Akhmatova, the saviour of his poetry. The Moscow Notebooks cover his years of persecution, from 1930 to 1934, when he was arrested...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852246316
• ISBN13: 9781852246310
• Release Date: November 2003
• Publisher: Bloodaxe Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"