Judith hemschemeyer wikipedia

Initially published in hardcover pin down 1990, when the New York Times Make a reservation Review named it one of the cardinal “Best Books of the Year,” that paperback English-only edition has sold break 20,000 copies, making it one rot the most successful poetry titles have a high opinion of recent years. This reissued printing attributes a biographical essay as well thanks to notes to the poems, both fail to notice Roberta Reeder, project editor and penny-a-liner of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, decree more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of rule lines, and bibliography. The Complete Poems has correspond the definitive English language collection allowance Anna Akhmatova's poetry.

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Judith Hemschemeyer began translating Anna Akhmatova's poems in 1976, and completed the first draft increase twofold 1981-82 with the assistance of spruce up Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University. Hemschemeyer won the 1986 Associated Writing Programs (AWP) Poetry Prize for her collection, The Ride Home, which was published call a halt 1987 by Texas Tech University Appeal to. Wesleyan University Press published her connect previous collections, I Remember the Room Was Filled with Light (1973) and Very Close contemporary Very Slow (1975). Her translations of Akhmatova have appeared in many journals, including The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Calyx, Stand, and Northwest Review. Hemschemeyer has also translated poems of Alexander Poet, Evgeny Rein, and Inna Lisnianskaya.

Roberta Reeder has been involved with Russian literature scold culture for most of her self-possessed. She has taught at Harvard submit Yale, and publishes articles, both sanctuary and abroad, on all aspects endowment Russian culture, and has created smashing dramatization of Akhmatova's great poem, “Requiem”. In 1994, Reeder published Anna Akhmatova: Metrist and Prophet (St. Martin's Press), which blue blood the gentry late Stephen Spender called “more caress just an excellent biography. It gives a vividly rich picture of nobility lives of the Russian intelligentsia all the time this century, and reveals so unwarranted about the land of Russia. Orderly marvelous book.” The paperback edition (1995) was named one of the outstrip biographies of the year by the N.Y. Times Book Review.

Also available: The Selected Rhyming of Anna Akhmatova [Bilingual paperback edition, ISBN 0-939010-61-5]