{"product_id":"the-stray-dog-cabaret-paul-schmidt-9781590171912","title":"The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems","description":"\u003cb\u003eA New York Review Books Original\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eA master anthology of Russia's most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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, \u003ci\u003eMy Sister, Life\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Schmidt\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590171918\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590171912\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2006\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.38lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.03h x 5.00w x 0.44d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Award - Finalist\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2006 pg. 11\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/18\/2006","brand":"Paul Schmidt","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44829790306559,"sku":"9781590171912","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e1036422-7bdc-47a8-9502-7f3bbcca57f6.jpg?v=1708451655","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-stray-dog-cabaret-paul-schmidt-9781590171912","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}