Osip Mandelstam

Osip Mandelstam has become an almost mythical figure of modern Russian poetry, his work treasured all over the world for its lyrical beauty and innovative, revolutionary engagement with the dark times of the Stalinist era. While he was exiled in the city of Voronezh, the black earth region of Russia, his work, as Joseph Brodsky wrote, developed into "a poetry...

Invaluable... [What] comes across in these translations is the verve and immediacy of the poems' occasions. Seamus Heaney A groundbreaking translation of the brilliant first book by one of the twentieth century's most important poets. Stone, 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...