Anna Akhmatova: Poems (Everyman's Library POCKET POETS)

Beautiful....... Akhmatova, the poems.Even with the tragedies, (poems) give solace.Must must must read, atleast once in lifetime.Once you have read her poems, you will keep coming back to her.And the hardcover version looks beautiful.Was happy anyway to have this book in my reading, but hardcover, added to my joy.

Brilliant translation. Great introduction to one of Russia's greatest poets. Some things go beyond what is intellectual, they transcend in their own beauty

She is a good poet of amazing depth who lived an incredible life. Austere and hard while retaining a soft core. Coupling poetry and a brave life, she wrote poetry worth reading. And read her bio.One's never done with a book of poetry that strikes the heart. Akhmatova has done that since first I read her forty years ago.Her life, her suffering, her loves, her bravery, all flow into her poetry. I can't separate her life with the multiple sufferings under Stalin's regime, and her bravery in the face of it all.And I love her verse and am moved by it, although Iknow that I only share a small percentage of it's beauty because I don't read or speak Russian.One of my favorite's:Lot's Wifeby Anna Akhmatova Translated by Stanley KunitzAnd the just man trailed God's shining agent,over a black mountain, in his giant track,while a restless voice kept harrying his woman:"It's not too late, you can still look backat the red towers of your native Sodom,the square where once you sang, the spinning-shed,at the empty windows set in the tall housewhere sons and daughters blessed your marriage-bed."A single glance: a sudden dart of painstitching her eyes before she made a sound . . .Her body flaked into transparent salt,and her swift legs rooted to the ground.Who will grieve for this woman? Does she not seemtoo insignificant for our concern?Yet in my heart I never will deny her,who suffered death because she chose to turn.I wil continue to read her works.

What a brilliant auther . I've never heard of her before, she's good.

Accesible Translation, vivid,alive. convenient pocket size, good clear print

This is my latest addition to my Everyman's Library of Pocket Poets. I read it in one evening and loved this little book. The Everyman's volumes are very handsome and have a ribbon attached for marking a favorite page. At this point I have almost a dozen volumes.