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The Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (New York Review Books Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Osip Mandelstam
Creators: Clarence Brown, W.s. Merwin
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Category: Book
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Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.8 x 0.6
ISBN: 1590170911
Dewey Decimal Number: 891.713
EAN: 9781590170915
ASIN: 1590170911
Publication Date: August 31, 2004
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Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik Revolution. Mandelstam's last poems, written in the interval between his exile to the provinces by Stalin and his death in the Gulag, are an extraordinary testament to the endurance of art in the presence of terror.
This book represents a collaboration between the scholar Clarence Brown and W. S. Merwin, one of contemporary America's finest poets and translators. It also includes Mandelstam's "Conversation on Dante," an uncategorizable work of genius containing the poet's deepest reflections on the nature of the poetic process.
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His poems living still March 10, 2005
13 out of 22 found this review helpful
MANDELSTAM
We do not know the way to the darkness of the word
or the excellent silence
concealed inside our poems
we only know the drumbeat of our own pain
and the flickering madness of a land's best lights lost
All we are and can be
is a poem
that will never come home again.
Stalin's death is Russia's life
The man Mandelstam murdered
His poems living still.
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