{"title":"Osip Mandelstam","description":"Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was one of the most important Russian poets of the twentieth century. His other books include The Noise of Time, The Egyptian Stamp, and Journey to Armenia. He was born in Warsaw, then under Russian rule, and died in one of Stalin's prison camps near Vladivostok. Robert Tracy (1928-2020) was an esteemed translator, literary critic, and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.","products":[{"product_id":"stolen-air-paperback","title":"Stolen Air - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eOsip 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. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With \u003cem\u003eStolen Air\u003c\/em\u003e, Christian Wiman, editor of \u003cem\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation of his 1933 poem known in English as The Stalin Epigram led to his arrest, exile, and eventual imprisonment in a Siberian transit camp, where he died, presumably in 1938. Mandelstam's work--much of it written under extreme duress--is an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of art in the face of oppression and terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStolen Air\u003c\/em\u003e spans Mandelstam's entire poetic career, from his early highly formal poems in which he reacted against Russian Symbolism to the poems of anguish and defiant abundance written in exile, when Mandelstam became a truly great poet. Aside from the famous early poems, which have a sharp new vitality in Wiman's versions, \u003cem\u003eStolen Air\u003c\/em\u003e includes large selections from \u003cem\u003eThe Moscow Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Voronezh Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing beyond previous translators who did not try to reproduce Mandelstam's music, Christian Wiman has captured in English--for the first time--something of Mandelstam's enticing, turbulent, and utterly heartbreaking sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA new selection and translation of the work of Osip Mandelstam, perhaps the most important Russian poet of the twentieth century\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePolitical nonconformist Osip Mandelstam's opposition to Stalin's totalitarian government made him a target of the communist state. The public recitation of his 1933 poem known in English as \"The Stalin Epigram\" led to his arrest, exile, and eventual imprisonment in a Siberian transit camp, where he died, presumably in 1938. Mandelstam's work--much of it written under extreme duress--is an extraordinary testament to the enduring power of art in the face of oppression and terror.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eStolen Air\u003c\/em\u003e spans Mandelstam's entire poetic career, from his early highly formal poems in which he reacted against Russian Symbolism to the poems of anguish and defiant abundance written in exile, when Mandelstam became a truly great poet. Aside from the famous early poems, which have a sharp new vitality in Wiman's versions, \u003cem\u003eStolen Air\u003c\/em\u003e includes large selections from \u003cem\u003eThe Moscow Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Voronezh Notebooks\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGoing beyond previous translators who did not try to reproduce Mandelstam's music, Christian Wiman has captured in English--for the first time--something of Mandelstam's enticing, turbulent, and utterly heartbreaking sounds.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376105914591,"sku":"9780062099426","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/xewLQDb5yK9780062099426.webp?v=1789214206"},{"product_id":"stone-paperback-2","title":"Stone - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Invaluable. . . . [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems' occasions.\"--Seamus Heaney \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one of the twentieth century's most important poets \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e--Osip Mandelstam's 1913 debut--marked the arrival of perhaps the greatest Russian poet of the twentieth century, one whose refusal to bow to Soviet political and artistic dictates led to his persecution and eventual death in one of Stalin's prison camps. Mandelstam spent his early years in St. Petersburg, and many of the poems in \u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e depict the city's vast squares, classical buildings, and Dutch canals. Other poems reflect his hunger for Western European culture, his commitment to humanistic values, and his ambition to become a master of the Russian language. This bilingual edition is based on the final version of \u003ci\u003eStone\u003c\/i\u003e, published in 1928, and features a biographical and critical introduction and detailed annotations.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51378766119135,"sku":"9780691284569","price":21.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2kpb-_7SUa9780691284569.webp?v=1789261683"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/osip-mandelstam.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}