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A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatovadenounced by the Soviet regime for her eroticism, mysticism, and political indifferenceis one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century.
Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was beautiful clarityin her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers Unioncondemned as half nun, half harlot. Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russias most beloved poets.
Here are poems from all her major worksincluding the magnificent Requiem commemorating the victims of Stalins terrorand some that have been newly translated for this edition.
