Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism.
You Will Hear Thunder spans Akhmatova\'s very ear.
Above all, she believed that a Russian poet could only produce poetry in Russia.
Defined by tragedy and beauty in equal measure, her poems take on romantic frustration and the pull of the sensory, and find power in the mundane.
Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that could grab a reader by the throat at a moment\'s notice.
Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism