Selected Poems

by Osip Mandelstam, David McDuff, Osip; McDuff Mandelstam

Book Overview

"Osip Mandelstam is a central figure not only in modern Russian but in world poetry, the author of some of the most haunting and memorable poems of the twentieth century. A contemporary of Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetayeva, and Boris Pasternak, a touchstone for later masters such as Paul Celan and Robert Lowell, Mandelstam was a crucial instigator of the "revolution of the word" that took place in St. Petersburg, only to be crushed by the Bolshevik...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374511624
• ISBN13: 9780374511623
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.