Occasional and Joke Poems - Softcover

Mandelstam, Osip

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1848618360 ISBN 13: 9781848618367

Verlag: Shearsman Books, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

Parallel to his more famous poems about the buildings of St. Petersburg, the shores of the Black Sea, and the streets of Voronezh, Mandelstam wrote many brief, spontaneous poems about his friends, enemies and everyday occurrences over his entire writing life. Though his poetic, political and personal trajectory was to be a lonely one, he in fact had a convivial and gregarious personality, of which these poems are a product. This volume collects them in English for the first time, with an introduction and notes for context. It provides a fresh perspective on this poet whose sense of the past, the present and the future seems second to none. 

Praise for Concert at a Railway Station :

"To my mind this is the best Mandelstam 'selected' yet and belongs on the bookshelves of everyone with an interest in 20th-Century Russian verse."

-Ross Cogan, Poetry Wales

"Alistair Noon's translations of Mandelstam are an important contribution to the study and appreciation of this vital writer."

-Anton Romanenko, B O D Y

"Noon daringly replicates Mandelstam's formal stanzas, using slant rhymes with a zingy freshness of diction that stops the poems from ever sounding like translationese."

-Henry King, Glasgow Review of Books

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda. Given a kind of reprieve, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a camp in Siberia. He died that year at a transit camp.

Alistair Noon is a poet and translator currently living in Berlin. He has published a number of poetry pamphlets over the years including Surveyors' Riddles (Sidekick Books 2015), a collaboration with the poet Giles Goodland. He has also published two full-length collections with Nine Arches Press - Earth Records in 2012, which was shortlisted for the Michael Murphy Memorial Prize, and The Kerosone Singing in 2015. Three volumes of his translations from Mandelstam are available from Shearsman Books.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Shearsman Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1848618360
• ISBN 13: 9781848618367
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 106
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