Anna Andreevna Akhmatova Roberta Reeder Judith Hemschemeyer
Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen -Best Books of the Year, - Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.
This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more...
Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen -Best Books of the Year, - Judith Hemschemeyer's tran...
Anna Andreevna Akhmatova Judith Hemschemeyer Roberta Reeder
A companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. -We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.---The Observer (London) -In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.- --New York Times Book Review
Judith Hemschemeyer began translating Akhmatova in 1976. She is a professor...
A companion to The Complete Poems, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments,...