{"product_id":"everymans-library-pocket-poets-seriesisbn-9780307264245","title":"Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series","description":"A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBefore the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was “beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers’ Union—condemned as “half nun, half harlot.” Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia’s most beloved poets.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Here are poems from all her major works—including the magnificent “Requiem” commemorating the victims of Stalin’s terror—and some that have been newly translated for this edition.From \u003ci\u003eEVENING\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘The pillow hot . . .’\u003cbr\u003eReading Hamlet \u003cbr\u003eEvening Room \u003cbr\u003e‘I have written down the words . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘I share my room . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘Memory of sun seeps from the heart . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘The door is half open . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘High in the sky . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eSong of the Last Meeting \u003cbr\u003eLove \u003cbr\u003e‘He loved three things alone . . .’\u003cbr\u003eImitation of Annensky \u003cbr\u003e‘I came here in idleness . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eWhite Night\u003cbr\u003eLegend on an Unfinished Portrait \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eROSARY\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘I have come to take your place, sister . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘It goes on without end . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘We’re all drunkards here . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eA Ride \u003cbr\u003e‘Nobody came to meet me . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘So many requests . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eThe Voice of Memory \u003cbr\u003e8 November 1913 \u003cbr\u003e‘Blue heaven, but the high . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Do you forgive me . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eThe Guest \u003cbr\u003e‘I won’t beg for your love . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘I came to him as a guest . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBY THE SEASHORE \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eWHITE FLOCK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘Empty white Christmastide . . .’\u003cbr\u003eLoneliness \u003cbr\u003e‘How can you look at the Neva . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘The road is black . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eFlight\u003cbr\u003e‘I don’t know if you’re alive or dead . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘There is a frontier-line . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Freshness of words . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Under an empty dwelling’s frozen roof . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘The churchyard’s quiet . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Neither by cart nor boat . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Lying in me . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eStatue in Tsarskoye Selo \u003cbr\u003e‘O there are words . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003ePLANTAIN\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘Fame is like smoke . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘I shouldn’t be dreaming . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘Now farewell, capital . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘I hear the oriole’s always grieving voice . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Now no-one will be listening to songs . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘The cuckoo I asked . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Why is our century worse than any other? . . .’\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eANNO DOMINI\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e‘You’re like a strange . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Everything is looted . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘Oh, life without . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘They wiped your slate . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eBezhetsk \u003cbr\u003e‘To earthly solace . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘I’m not of those who left . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Blows the swan wind . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘To fall ill as one should . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘Behind the lake . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eRachel \u003cbr\u003eLot’s Wife \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eREED\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eMuse\u003cbr\u003eTo an Artist \u003cbr\u003eThe Last Toast \u003cbr\u003e*‘Dust smells of a sun-ray . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Some gaze into tender faces . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eBoris Pasternak \u003cbr\u003eVoronezh\u003cbr\u003e*Imitation from the Armenian \u003cbr\u003eDante\u003cbr\u003eCleopatra\u003cbr\u003eWillow \u003cbr\u003e*In Memory of Mikhail Bulgakov \u003cbr\u003e‘When a man dies . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e*‘Not the lyre of a lover . . .’\u003cbr\u003eWay of All the Earth \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eTHE SEVENTH BOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eIn 1940 \u003cbr\u003e‘Some walk in a straight line . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e*‘No matter that death . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eCourage \u003cbr\u003e‘And you, my friends . . .’\u003cbr\u003e*‘That’s how I am . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eThree Autumns \u003cbr\u003e‘The souls of those I love . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘The fifth act of the drama . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘It is your lynx eyes, Asia . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eIn Dream\u003cbr\u003e‘Once more an autumn . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e*The Glass Doorbell \u003cbr\u003e‘And that heart . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘So again we triumph! . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Let any, who will, still bask in the south . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eMusic\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom \u003ci\u003eNorthern Elegies\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe First \u003cbr\u003eThe Fifth \u003cbr\u003eThe Sixth \u003cbr\u003eSeaside Sonnet \u003cbr\u003eFragment\u003cbr\u003eSummer Garden\u003cbr\u003e‘In black memory . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e‘Could Beatrice write . . .’\u003cbr\u003eDeath of a Poet \u003cbr\u003eThe Death of Sophocles\u003cbr\u003eAlexander at Thebes \u003cbr\u003eNative Soil \u003cbr\u003eThere are Four of Us \u003cbr\u003e*‘If all who have begged help . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eLast Rose\u003cbr\u003e*‘Reviled and acclaimed . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘This land . . .’\u003cbr\u003e*‘It is no wonder . . .’\u003cbr\u003e‘What’s war? What’s plague? . . .’ \u003cbr\u003eIn Memory of V. C. Sreznevskaya \u003cbr\u003eChristmastime (24 December) \u003cbr\u003e‘You will hear thunder and remember me . . .’ \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eREQUIEM \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePOEM WITHOUT A HERO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNotes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTranslator’s Acknowledgments\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e*Poems not published in the collection but written in the same epoch.ANNA AKHMATOVA was born Anna Gorenko in 1888 and died in 1966. A popular poet of  the Acmeist school, she took a pseudonym when her upper-class father objected to  her \"decadent\" choice of career. She was married to the Acmeist poet Gumilev from  1910 until 1918, and spent time in Paris, where she posed nude for Modigliani. After  the Revolution, Akhmatova remained silent for two decades. Her ex-husband was executed  in 1921, their son was imprisoned for sixteen years, and her third husband died in  a Siberian prison camp. She began publishing again at the outbreak of World War II,  and her writings regained popularity despite being harshly denounced by the Soviet  regime in 1946 and 1957 for \"bourgeois decadence.\" Ejected from the Writers' Union  in 1946, she was made its president two years before her death in 1966. Her greatest  poem, \u003cb\u003e\"Requiem,\"\u003c\/b\u003e gives voice to the suffering of those who, like the poet, spent  many years waiting outside prison walls for word of their sons, husbands, or lovers.  It was not published in its entirety in Russia until 1987.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePETER WASHINGTON is the  editor of many of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets, including \u003ci\u003eLove Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, and  is the author of Madame Blavatsky's \u003ci\u003eBaboon: A History of the Mystics, Mediums,\u003c\/i\u003e and  \u003ci\u003eMisfits Who Brought Spiritualism to America. \u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304178471141,"sku":"NP9780307264245","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780307264244_2213d715-7ded-4d1c-b2d3-9c322786242f.jpg?v=1730756550","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/everymans-library-pocket-poets-seriesisbn-9780307264245","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}