Osip Mandelstam Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Osip Mandelstam

Poetry

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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.

Selected Poems (English and Russian Edition)

Macmillan Pub. Co.

The description for this book, The Prose of Osip Mandelstam, will be forthcoming.

The Prose of Osip Mandelstam

Reference

Princeton University Press

This original anthology traces a century of Russian poetry, taking us through the turbulent decades from 1900 to 2000 with poets of stature who reflected or recorded their times. It combines work by famous and lesser known (outside Russia) poets, some never previously published in English, through the medium of six translators, who also contribute biographical and historical notes. The one unnamed poet is the writer from the Arsenal Mental Prison Hospital in the 1970s, whose anguished, affecting verse, in a little book bound in elastoplast, was smuggled out of the hospital. These are poems that will continue to survive.
The translators: Vladimir Baskayev, Kitty Hunter Blair, Belinda Cooke, Richard McKane, Michael Molnar.
Richard McKane is the translator of the Selected Poems' of Anna Akhmatova (1989) and, with Elizabeth McKane, of Osip Mandelstam's The Moscow Notebooks' (1991) and The Voronezh Notebooks' (1996). More recently he has published a selection from Nikolay Gumilyov's poems, The Pillar of Fire' (1999) and, with Ruth Christie and Talât Halman, a selection of poems by Nâzim Hikmet, Beyond the Walls' (2002).

Ten Russian Poets: Surviving the Twentieth Century

Velimir Khlebnikov

Katia Kapovich

Mikhail Kuzmin

Boris Poplavsky

Daniel Andreyev

Arseny Tarkovsky

Leonid Aronzon

Viktor Krivulin

Anvil Press Poetry

Complete Poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam (Russian literature in translation)

Complete poetry of Osip Emilevich Mandelstam (Russian literature in translation)

State University of New York Press

Osip Mandelstam: Poems

Distributed by Random House

Stikhotvoreniia

Berkeley Slavic Specialties

The Eyesight of Wasps: Poems

The Eyesight of Wasps

Angel Books

Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the twentieth century, with a prophetic understanding of its suffering. This contains the poems of his years of persecution, from his journey to Armenia in 1930 until 1934, when he was arrested and exiled to the Urals for writing an unflattering poem about Stalin. Written and preserved by a miracle, his poems have become in Peter Levi's description "all gems and ingots" in the McKanes' translations.

Moscow Notebooks

Bloodaxe Books Ltd.

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