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Excellent. I don't know Russian, so I can't comment on the closeness of the translations. That said, I've now read at least three versions of many of these poems, and found this edition to be the most attentive to maintaining rhyme. When dealing with another language, that has to be very difficult. And yet, as I read these versions, I felt, maybe for the first time, a sense of Akhmatova's delicate and precise voice. Note that the e-book price for this book is an incredible value.
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