STOLEN AIR: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam

One of the great international poets superbly translated.It is probably a good idea to read these poems in tandem with the other current translations such as the NYRB collection; it becomes obvious on doing this how the nuanced, strange, oblique text can be translated in very different ways. Mandelstam's work clearly reflects the Soviet Union's tragedy.Strangely joyful.

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