Poems of Akhmatova

The acclaimed bilingual edition of verse by Russia’s greatest woman poet, selected and translated by a Pulitzer Prize winner.

Witness to the chaos in Russia and abroad in the first half of the twentieth century, Anna Akhmatova (1888 – 1966) chronicled her country’s troubled times in poems of sharp beauty and intensity. Akhmatova was a star of St. Petersburg’s pre-Revolutionary literary set, which included Boris Pasternak, Osip Mandelstam, and Alexander Blok, and her genius is now universally acknowledged.