Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip MandelstamOsip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen hundreds a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in early twentieth century St. Petersburg and a political non conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With Stolen Air, Christian Wiman, editor of POETRY, America's oldest and most prestigious magazine of verse, offers a new selection and translation of Mandelstam's

Osip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds--a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With Stolen Air, Christian Wiman, editor of POETRY, America's oldest and most prestigious magazine of verse, offers a new selection and translation of Mandelstam's poetry--from his hard-edged and highly formal early poems to his almost savagely musical later works--for a new generation to be moved by, marvel at, and appreciate.


Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Ecco Press
Published: 03/27/2012
ISBN: 9780062099426
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 7.93h x 5.37w x 0.39d

Review Citations: Booklist 04/15/2012 pg. 15