Book · 1938 · Nonfiction

Selected Poems

Name: Selected Poems
Author: Osip Mandelstam

New York Review Books · 167 pages

★ 6.9 editorial score

Dense, classical, and packed with Petersburg stone and Black Sea light, from a poet the state killed for sixteen lines about Stalin. His widow saved them by memorizing every one.

Genre

Lyric poetry Modernism

Medium

Poetry

Subject

Stalinism Exile Ancient Greece Russia

Setting

Russia

Time

1938Depicts Soviet EraDepicts 20th century

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