Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

by Osip Mandelstam

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0062099426
• ISBN13: 9780062099426
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.4" x 7.9"