Requiem and Poem Without a Hero

by Anna Akhmatova

Book Overview

With this edition Swallow Press presents two of Anna Akhmatova's best-known works that represent the poet at full maturity, and that most trenchantly process the trauma she and others experienced living under Stalin's regime. Akhmatova began the three-decade process of writing "Requiem" in 1935 after the arrests of her son, Lev Gumilev, and her third husband. The autobiographical fifteen-poem cycle primarily chronicles a mother's wait--lining up outside...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804011958
• ISBN13: 9780804011952
• Release Date: March 2018
• Publisher: Swallow Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.4" x 8.2"