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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. She's wonderful! Her writing inspires me to write, and sing. I admire her work greatly. (  ) Anagarika | Oct 30, 2009 |  A monumestal work. Complete means complete. Hemschemeyer learned Russian for the task and for a non-russian speaker she did a marvelous job. Of the poetry there is no need to speak - from the intimate personl stanzas of the early period to the thrilling memories of the gruesome time. One thing this shows AA was writing poetry on her death bed. a message to slackers. Credit goes to the Zephyr press - not one of the major houses for producing t his book ( ) josephquinton | Sep 22, 2009 | It helps to have a friend who knows Russian when reading her poetry - there are nuances that get missed in any translation. But her work is wonderful. ( ) oscewicee | Aug 28, 2008 | poems of love, life, social criticism, revolution ( ) Zohrab | Mar 6, 2008 |  no reviews | add a review
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This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. The Complete Poems will be the definitive English language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come.
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