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.
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 poetry--from his hard-edged and highly formal early Poems to his almost savagely musical later works--for a new generation to be moved by, marvel at, and appreciate..
Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime.
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