Anna Akhmatova Poems
Anna Akhmatova Poems. 1988 Raduga, unstated printing, 269 pages. According to the Poetry Foundation: "In her lifetime Akhmatova experienced both prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, yet her verse extended and preserved classical Russian culture during periods of avant-garde radicalism and formal experimentation, as well as the suffocating ideological strictures of socialist realism." She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. This collection spans her career.
Condition: VG, inscription on first page
" Behind my shawl my hands I clutched,
Why do I look so pale tonight?
Because I made him drink to much
Of hopeless grief, a bitter wine."
Anna Akhmatova Poems. 1988 Raduga, unstated printing, 269 pages. According to the Poetry Foundation: "In her lifetime Akhmatova experienced both prerevolutionary and Soviet Russia, yet her verse extended and preserved classical Russian culture during periods of avant-garde radicalism and formal experimentation, as well as the suffocating ideological strictures of socialist realism." She was twice nominated for the Nobel Prize. This collection spans her career.
Condition: VG, inscription on first page
" Behind my shawl my hands I clutched,
Why do I look so pale tonight?
Because I made him drink to much
Of hopeless grief, a bitter wine."