The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Schmidt, Paul

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781590171912)

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The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Schmidt, Paul

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems

$14.95
The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems by Schmidt, Paul

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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A New York Review Books Original

A master anthology of Russia's most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English

In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence "Twelve"; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life.

It was a transforming moment--not just for Russian but for world poetry--and a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret.

Author: Paul Schmidt
ISBN-10: 1590171918
ISBN-13: 9781590171912
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2006
Pages: 168
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.38lbs
Size: 8.03h x 5.00w x 0.44d
Award: Literary Award - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 12/01/2006 pg. 11
Library Journal 12/18/2006
By Paul Schmidt
By Paul Schmidt
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Paul Schmidt wrote many award winning translations. He held a Ph.D in Slavic Literature from Harvard and was a professor of Russian literature at the University of Texas and Wellesley College. His critical essays appeared in The Nation, The New York Review of Books, and Delos. He was a recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Catherine Ciepiela is Professor of Russian at Amherst, and author of The Same Solitude, a book about Marinas Tsvetaeva's long-distance romance with Boris Pasterna.

Honor Moore's collections of poems are RedShoes, Darling, and Memoir. She edited Amy Lowell: Selected Poems for the Library of America and is author of The White Blackbird, a life of her grandmother, the painter Margarett Sargent.

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