The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory

by Anna Akhmatova

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300191375
• ISBN13: 9780300191370
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"