{"product_id":"voronezh-notebooks-isbn-9781590179109","title":"Voronezh Notebooks","description":"Osip Mandelstam is one of the greatest of twentieth-century poets and \u003ci\u003eVoronezh Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e, a sequence of poems composed between 1935 and 1937 when he was living in internal exile in the Soviet city of Voronezh, is his last and most exploratory work. Meditating on death and survival, on power and poetry, on marriage, madness, friendship, and memory, challenging Stalin between lines that are full of the sights and sounds of the steppes, blue sky and black earth, the roads, winter breath, spring with its birds and flowers and bees, the notebooks are a continual improvisation and an unapologetic affirmation of poetry as life.\"Throughout\u003ci\u003e Voronezh Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e, Mandelstam seems energized by an  uncontainable joy in his dangerous disobedience. 'Fear makes it  beautiful,' he says of his frozen surroundings. 'Something terrible  might occur.'...Andrew Davis’s translation is vibrant and densely lyrical. More than his  predecessors, he brings out a playful, gnomic quality in Mandelstam’s  verse that calls to mind  Emily Dickinson. He beautifully evokes a voice unafraid to burn itself out in the passion of creation.\" —Sam Sacks, \u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Mandelstam’s poems are both bold and delicate.  His imagery can seem both profoundly startling yet entirely natural. More than any other translator, Andrew Davis succeeds in reproducing all of these qualities.” —Robert Chandler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Mandelstam was a tragic figure. Even while in exile in Voronej, he  wrote works of untold beauty and power. And he had no poetic  forerunners...In all of world poetry, I know of no other such case.  We  know the sources of Pushkin and Blok, but who will tell us from where  that new, divine harmony, Mandelstam's poetry, came from?\" --Anna  Akhmatova\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Russia's greatest poet in this century.\" --\u003ci\u003eJoseph Brodsky\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"It is one thing to discover internal unity in a scholar's quiet career, quite another to find it in the works of a man subjected to years of harassment, terrorization, exile and proscription. In circumstances as hostile as those in the Soviet State, [Mandelstam] was forced to sacrifice everything...in order that this gift survive as it was meant to.\" --Sven Birkerts, \u003ci\u003eThe Iowa Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eOsip Mandelstam\u003c\/b\u003e (1891–1938) was born and raised in St.  Petersburg, where he attended the prestigious Tenishev School, before  studying at the universities of St. Petersburg and Heidelberg and at the  Sorbonne. Mandelstam first published his poems in \u003ci\u003eApollyon\u003c\/i\u003e, an  avant-garde magazine, in 1910, then banded together with Anna Akhmatova  and Nikolai Gumilev to form the Acmeist movement, which advocated an  aesthetic of exact description and chiseled form, as suggested by the  title of Mandelstam’s first book, \u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e (1913). During the  Russian Revolution, he left Leningrad for the Crimea and Georgia, and  settled in Moscow in 1922,where his second collection of poems,\u003ci\u003e Tristia\u003c\/i\u003e,  appeared. Unpopular with the Soviet authorities, Mandelstam found it  increasingly difficult to publish his poetry, though an edition of  collected poems did come out in 1928. In 1934, after reading a poem  denouncing Stalin to friends, Mandelstam was arrested and sent into  exile. He produced many new poems during these years, and his wife,  Nadezhda, memorized his work in case his notebooks were destroyed or  lost. (Her extraordinary memoirs of life with her husband, \u003ci\u003eHope Against Hope and Hope Abandoned\u003c\/i\u003e,  published in the 1970s, later helped to bring Mandelstam a worldwide  audience.) In 1937, Mandelstam’s exile ended and he returned to Moscow,  but he was arrested again almost immediately. This time he was sentenced  to hard labor in Siberia. He was last seen in a transit camp near  Vladivostok.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Davis\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet,  cabinetmaker, and visual artist. His current project is the long poem  IMPLUVIUM. He divides his time between Santa Fe, New Mexico, and the  north coast of Spain.","brand":"NYRB Poets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46300809199845,"sku":"NP9781590179109","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781590179109.jpg?v=1767743521","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/voronezh-notebooks-isbn-9781590179109","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}