The Columbia disaster sent me to the bookshelves for Poems of Mourning (Knopf, $12.50; 254 pp.) edited by Peter Washington. Published in 1998, it's a volume in the Everyman Library Pocket Poets series ...
To avoid persecution by Stalin, the poet Anna Akhmatova burnt her writings and instead taught a circle of friends the words of her poem Requiem off by heart. By going ‘pre-Gutenberg’ she ensured its ...
What better gift for a literature lover than this handsome little collection of Irish poems? Of course, the writers and wits of the Emerald Isle have always had a penchant for verse, and this tiny ...
How far would you go to speak your truth? The Soviet poet Anna Akhmatova went up against Joseph Stalin himself. She refused the secret services' pressure to turn her mystical poetry into state ...
Kansas City soprano Victoria Botero and Vanessa Thomas sing together during a rehearsal of Anna Akhmatova’s poem "Song About Songs" put to music by American musician Iris DeMent. A group of Kansas ...
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