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The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother's wait--lining up outside Leningrad Prison every day for seventeen months--for news of her son's fate. But from this limbo, Akhmatova expresses and elevates the collective grief for all the thousands vanished under the regime, and for those left behind to speculate about their loved ones' fates. Similarly, Akhmatova wrote \"Poem without a Hero\" over a long period. It takes as its focus the transformation of Akhmatova's beloved city of St. Petersburg--historically a seat of art and culture--into Leningrad. Taken together, these works plumb the foremost themes for which Akhmatova is known and revered. When Ohio University Press published D. M. Thomas's translations in 1976, it was the first time they had appeared in English. Under Thomas's stewardship, Akhmatova's words ring clear as a bell.","brand":"Anna Akhmatova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793345249322,"sku":"9780804011952","price":12.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/requiem-and-poem-without-a-hero-3091280.jpg?v=1762150177"},{"product_id":"complete-poems-of-anna-akhmatova-expanded","title":"Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova (Expanded)","description":"Initially published in 1990, when the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e named it one of fourteen \"Best Books of the Year,\" Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.\u003cp\u003eThis reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of \u003ci\u003eAnna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet\u003c\/i\u003e (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. \u003ci\u003eThe Complete Poems\u003c\/i\u003e will be the definitive English language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anna Akhmatova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43793345380394,"sku":"9780939010271","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/complete-poems-of-anna-akhmatova-expanded-7204517.jpg?v=1762150177"},{"product_id":"you-will-hear-thunder","title":"You Will Hear Thunder","description":"Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that could grab a reader by the throat at a moment's notice. Defined by tragedy and beauty in equal measure, her poems take on romantic frustration and the pull of the sensory, and find power in the mundane. Above all, she believed that a Russian poet could only produce poetry in Russia. You Will Hear Thunder spans Akhmatova's very early career into the early 1960s. These poems were written through her bohemian prerevolution days, her many marriages, the terror and privation of life under Stalin, and her later years, during which she saw her work once again recognized by the Soviet state. Intricately observed and unwavering in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems represent one of the twentieth century's most powerful voices.","brand":"Anna Akhmatova","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44102585319466,"sku":"9780804011914","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0690\/0891\/6522\/files\/you-will-hear-thunder-7521483.jpg?v=1771573773"}],"url":"https:\/\/thepoetryshop.com\/collections\/anna-akhmatova.oembed","provider":"The Poetry Shop LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}