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    <body><![CDATA[One often wonders, when one hears everyone and their brothers spouting superlatives about a poet from a historically repressive country, whether the superlatives are based on the poet's actual work, or whether they're in some way based on the poet's admirable-- but irrelevant-- ability to perform wi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15163250">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Anna Akhmatova is a 20th Century poet whose body of work revolves around themes of time and memory, humanity, and the human soul, of which she bears hers clearly in her poems.<br/><br/>I took forever to read all the poems/the book (which is really a quick read), but finally coming to the end with ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40510779">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I'm moving this book to the &quot;read&quot; shelf because I've decided not to make any more efforts to finish it.  I've read the whole book except the lengthy &quot;Poem Without a Hero&quot; at the end, and this translation is just so choppy and stuttering and opaque that I can't force myself to fi...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23477686">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Russian friend had sent me a copy of Akhmatova's &quot;Lying in Me&quot; and once I read that poem I wanted more.  As is the case with The Stray Dog Cabaret, unless you know Russian history and culture I highly recommend reading the introduction.  <br/><br/>Anna's poems are often dreary and dark...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5987512">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[If you want to be a poet- or if you simply want to read some amazing poems- this is the right book.  This one doesn't have all her stuff, but it's not too big and can fit in a purse or backpack without any trouble.  <br/><br/>Oh, and by the way, Anna Akhmatova was a bold and resolute woman in her ti...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/8529177">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I reread this delightful book the other night when I was irritated at my husband.  The translations are fantastic, and poetic in and of themselves (I have read so many terrible translations of her work).  I also really enjoy the biographical introduction and his explanation of his philosophy of tran...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/37802060">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[Anna Akhmatova is identified, along with Osip Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, and Marina Tsvetaeva, as one of the four leading poets of Twentieth-Century Russian literature. Her poetry, classically rhymed and metered but also laconic and highly elliptical, is deeply engaged with predecessors such as Horace, Dante, Shakespeare, Byron, Dostoevsky, Annensky and above all Pushkin, and also with contemporaries such as Mandelstam, T.S. Eliot, and Gumilev, her husband, who was persecuted and finally executed by Stalin. The poems collected, including the masterworks &quot;Requiem&quot; and &quot;Poem without a Hero,&quot; conjure intimations of the infinite and profound emotional depth through meditations on the perception of everyday objects and evocative settings, forming a powerful record of spiritual resilience. With an introductory essay by Walter Arndt, acclaimed translator of Russian literature, and translations by Arndt, Robin Kemball, and Carl R. Proffer, this volume provides the most authoritative and readable versions of Akhmatova's poetry in English.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[There are many translations of Akhmatova, but, of those I've tried, these by Richard McKane, in a large Bloodaxe anthology, are my favourites. Because he doesn't rhyme, he doesn't have to force the sense. As I can't read a word of Russian, I don't know how true the translations are to the originals,...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/23972867">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>A companion to <em>The Complete Poems</em>, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. &quot;We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.&quot;-<em>The Observer</em> (London) &quot;In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.&quot; -<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p><strong>Judith Hemschemeyer</strong> began translating Akhmatova in 1976. She is a professor at the University of Central Florida, and has published several books of poetry and translations. <strong>Roberta Reeder</strong> has taught at Harvard and Yale and is the author of Akhmatova's biography, <em>Anna Akhmatova: Poet &amp; Prophet</em>.</p><p>Also available by Anna Akhmatova<br/><em>The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova</em><br/>PB $29.00, 0-939010-27-5 &lt;bu&gt; CUSA</p><p>A companion to <em>The Complete Poems,</em> this collection offers some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments in bilingual format, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. &quot;We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.&quot; -<em>The Observer (London)</em> &quot;In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.&quot; -<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I really like this edition--a poet translated these poems into English and managed to maintain the flow that (I imagine) they have in the original Russian. <br/>This version also has the poems in Russian on the opposite page--someday I hope to read them in the original!]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>A companion to <em>The Complete Poems</em>, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. &quot;We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.&quot;-<em>The Observer</em> (London) &quot;In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.&quot; -<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p><strong>Judith Hemschemeyer</strong> began translating Akhmatova in 1976. She is a professor at the University of Central Florida, and has published several books of poetry and translations. <strong>Roberta Reeder</strong> has taught at Harvard and Yale and is the author of Akhmatova's biography, <em>Anna Akhmatova: Poet &amp; Prophet</em>.</p><p>Also available by Anna Akhmatova<br/><em>The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova</em><br/>PB $29.00, 0-939010-27-5 &lt;bu&gt; CUSA</p><p>A companion to <em>The Complete Poems,</em> this collection offers some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments in bilingual format, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. &quot;We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.&quot; -<em>The Observer (London)</em> &quot;In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.&quot; -<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I had high hopes for this book, but unfortunately the translation didn't live up to them. I assume it's the rather prosaic translation of these verses that is to fault, as I know she's a well regarded poet in Russian. I wonder which is a better translation. Marian?]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[<p>A companion to <em>The Complete Poems</em>, this collection offers in a bilingual format some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. &quot;We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.&quot;-<em>The Observer</em> (London) &quot;In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.&quot; -<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p><strong>Judith Hemschemeyer</strong> began translating Akhmatova in 1976. She is a professor at the University of Central Florida, and has published several books of poetry and translations. <strong>Roberta Reeder</strong> has taught at Harvard and Yale and is the author of Akhmatova's biography, <em>Anna Akhmatova: Poet &amp; Prophet</em>.</p><p>Also available by Anna Akhmatova<br/><em>The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova</em><br/>PB $29.00, 0-939010-27-5 &lt;bu&gt; CUSA</p><p>A companion to <em>The Complete Poems,</em> this collection offers some of the Russian poet's most intense and lyrical moments in bilingual format, while retaining a preface by Roberta Reeder and accompanying notes for Judith Hemschemeyer's translations. &quot;We needn't worry again about how to read Akhmatova in translation.&quot; -<em>The Observer (London)</em> &quot;In this restrained and accurate translation ... the sense and message strike with all the weight of the original.&quot; -<em>New York Times Book Review</em></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Nostalgic, gloomy, and reflective are the poems of Akhmatova. I especially liked this edition because it included the Russian. Akhmatova is pretty much Russia's most famous female poet, and not without reason.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[this only gets four stars because of the translation...nothing to do with anna...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/search/search?q= stanley kunitz" title=" stanley kunitz"> stanley kunitz</a>' and max hayward's translations of her poems are far better.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A lot is lost in the translation between her native tongue and English; however it is worth browsing]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[She smelled better than you probably ever will.]]></body>
    
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