A STRANGER TO HEAVEN AND EARTH (Shambhala Centaur Editions) - Softcover

Akhmatova, Anna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0877738947 ISBN 13: 9780877738947

Publisher: Shambhala, 1993

Synopsis

Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1889-1966) used poetry to give voice to the struggles and deepest yearnings of the Russian people, for whom she remains the greatest of literary heroines. She has lately come to symbolize for the world even beyond Russia the power of art to survive and transcend the terrors of our century. The poems in this selection are related to the truth-telling that was Akhmatova's central purpose - individually, collectively, and spiritually.

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Russian

Review

Ah - You Thought I'd Be The Type
Ah! It's You Again. Not As An Enamoured Youth
And Here, In Defiance Of The Fact
And I Am Not At All A Prophet
And In The Kievian Church Of Divine Wisdom
And The Man Who Means
And When We Had Cursed Each Other
As If With A Huge, Heavy Hammer
Confession
Confusion
Darling, Don't Crumble My Letter
Dying, I Am Tormented By Immortality
Everyone Left And No One Returned
Farewell Song
Festive Song
For A Long Time I Stood At Hell's Heavy Gates
Fragment
He Didn't Mock Me, He Didn't Praise
He Loved
He Whispers: 'i'm Not Sorry'
The Heiress
Here The Most Beautiful Of Girls Fight
How I Loved, How I Loved To Look
How Many Demands The Beloved Can Make
I Am Not With Those Who Abandoned Their Land
I Brought Disaster To My Dear Ones
I Dream Of Him Less Often Now, Thank God
I Have A Certain Smile
I Led My Loved Out To The Hall
I Wept And Repented
I Will Leave Your White House And Tranquil Garden
I Will Tend These Rich, Black Beds
In Every Tree, The Crucified Lord
In Every Twenty-four Hours There Is One
In The Corner An Old Man Resembling A Ram
Isn't It To Escape From This Damned Easy Life
It Would Be So Easy To Abandon This Life
The Last One
Masquerade Chatter
Memory Of Love, You Are Painful
No, We Didn't Suffer Together In Vain
Noiselessly They Walked About The House
Number Three, Zachatevsky
Oh No, It Wasn't You I Loved
Oh, Life Without Tomorrow's Day!
One Heart Isn't Chained To Another
One Would Not Mistake True Tenderness
Others Go Off With Their Loved Ones
Over The Snowdrift's Hard Crust
Parting: 1
Parting: 2
Petrorad, 1919
Prayer
Shards
The Sky Sows A Fine Rain
So We Lowered Our Eyes
Some Of Them Exchange Fond Glances
Somewhere There Is A Simple Life And A World
Stanzas
Stop It, I Was Like All Of Them
There Is A Sacred Boundary Between Those Who Are Close
They Didn't Bring Me A Letter Today
This Is Neither Old Nor New
To The Defenders Of Stalin
To The New Year! To New Bitterness!
Too Sweet Is Earthly Drink
Under An Oaken Slab In The Churchyard
The Violent Wine Of Lechery
We Don't Know How To Say Goodbye
Weak Is My Voice, But My Will Isn't Weakening
When In Suicidal Anguish
When You're Drunk It's So Much Fun
Why Did You Poison The Water
Why Do You Wander Restlessly?
With The Rabble In A Ditch
You Are Always Novel And Mysterious
You Are No Longer Among The Living
You Gave Me A Difficult Youth
You Know, I Languish In Captivity
You Will Live Without Misfortune
You Won't Divine It Immediately
-- Table of Poems from Poem FinderŪ

About this edition

• Publisher: Shambhala
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0877738947
• ISBN 13: 9780877738947
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 115