num_pages: 192
description: The acclaimed bilingual edition of verse by Russia's greatest woman poet, selected and translated by a Pulitzer Prize winner.Witness to the chaos in Russia and abroad in the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888 - 1966) chronicled her country's troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Akhmatova was a star of St. Petersburg's pre-Revolutionary literary set, which included Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, and Alexander Blok, and her genius is now universally acknowledged.
language: English
title: Poems of Akhmatova
titlecomplete: Poems of Akhmatova
genres: Classics, Adult, Fiction, Russia, Female Authors, Russian Literature, 20th Century, Literature, Poetry, Womens
ratings_count: 1186
publisher: Mariner Books