
Selected Poems
Vladislav Khodasevich(Author)
Overlook Press
Published on 9. January 2014
Book
Hardback
190 pages
978-1-4683-0810-5 (ISBN)
Description
And yet in finding a way out-and outliving many of his contemporaries-Khodasevich was nearly erased from the tumultuous literary history of Russia's long twentieth century. The publication of his Selected Poems is an essential and long-overdue tribute to this extraordinarily gifted poet. Born in 1886, Khodasevich came of age among the famed avant-gardists of Russian poetry, but unlike the major modernists of the age-the Symbolists and the Futurists among them-he sought inspiration neither in esoteric doctrines, nor in grand pronouncements. Instead, he was determined to find meaning in the world, and each of his poems reflects this tireless, often heroic, sometimes deeply bitter engagement with his surroundings. An innovative classicist in an era taken in by relentless experimentation, Khodasevich was hailed by many of his peers in the Soviet Union and Berlin, including Vladimir Nabokov, who wrote that Khodasevich would "remain the pride of Russian poetry as long as its last memory lives." Brilliantly translated by Peter Daniels, and with a richly informed introduction by Michael Wachtel, Selected Poems is a stunning confirmation of that assessment.
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Edition
Bilingual
Language
English
Other
Place of publication
New York
United States
Edition type
Bilingual edition
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
390 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4683-0810-5 (9781468308105)
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Vladislav Khodasevich (1886?1939) was born in Moscow and emigrated to Berlin in 1922. In addition to the five collections of poems he published between 1908 and 1927, Khodasevich was the author of a biography of the poet Gavrila Derzhavin and of numerous essays. He was married to the novelist Nina Berberova.
Peter Daniels is a winner of the 2008 Arvon and 2010 TLS Poetry Competitions. His collection Counting Eggs was published in 2012.
Michael Wachtel is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of The Development of Russian Verse, Pushkin's Lyric Poetry and other books.
Peter Daniels is a winner of the 2008 Arvon and 2010 TLS Poetry Competitions. His collection Counting Eggs was published in 2012.
Michael Wachtel is a professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Princeton University. He is the author of The Development of Russian Verse, Pushkin's Lyric Poetry and other books.