Book · 1966 · Nonfiction

The Complete Poems

Name: The Complete Poems
Author: Anna Akhmatova

Zephyr Press · 908 pages

★ 7.1 editorial score

Waiting outside a Leningrad prison with a parcel for her son, Akhmatova was asked whether she could describe this. Requiem was the answer. Her love lyrics have the same merciless exactness.

Genre

Lyric poetry

Medium

Poetry

Subject

Stalinism Grief Memory Russia

Setting

St. Petersburg, Russia

Time

1966Depicts Soviet EraDepicts 20th century

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