Poems of Osip Mandelstam
by Osip Mandelstam
Translated from the Russian by Peter France
With a contribution by Peter France
Peter France writes in his foreword: “I have always been conscious that Mandelstam was an outstanding figure, arguably the outstanding Russian poet of the twentieth century. This is a personal selection from the poetry — poems that for one reason or another I wanted to translate. I have tried to make it reasonably representative of different strands and periods in his work, with a certain stress on the brilliant and fragmentary Voronezh poems.”
The transparent one still sings to no avail,
still swallow, Antigone, beloved girl …
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