The Stray Dog cabaret
Subtitle: a book of Russian poems
By: translated by Paul Schmidt ; edited by Catherine Ciepiela, Honor Moore
Contributors: Schmidt, Paul, 1934-; Ciepiela, Catherine; Moore, Honor, 1945-; Brodi︠a︡chai︠a︡ sobaka (Cabaret : Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Series: New York Review Books classics
Publisher: New York Review Books
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 140
ISBN-13: 9781590171912
Subjects: Russian poetry -- Russia (Federation) -- Saint Petersburg; Russian poetry -- 20th century
Description: "In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence "Twelve"; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life." "It was a transforming moment - not just for Russian but for world poetry - and a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes poems by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Esenin

Includes bibliographical references and index