“D.M. Thomas is a poet in his own right, and … a sensitive translator of [Akhmatova]. Thomas refers to the ‘rich mysterious fluid life’ that her poetry has.… From his strong yet cautious rhythms, his solid musical phrasing, one [can] intuit the dark elegance of the original.”
Yorkshire Post
“These are among the best, the most authoritative, of … translations from the Russian, and are from one of the most powerful of the twentieth century Russian poets.”
Financial Times
Anna Akhmatova lived through pre-revolution Russia, Bolshevism, and Stalinism. Throughout it all, she maintained an elegant, muscular style that could grab a reader by the throat at a moment’s notice. Defined by tragedy and beauty in equal measure, her poems take on romantic frustration and the pull of the sensory, and find power in the mundane. Above all, she believed that a Russian poet could only produce poetry in Russia.
You Will Hear Thunder spans Akhmatova’s very early career into the early 1960s. These poems were written through her bohemian prerevolution days, her many marriages, the terror and privation of life under Stalin, and her later years, during which she saw her work once again recognized by the Soviet state. Intricately observed and unwavering in their emotional immediacy, these strikingly modern poems represent one of the twentieth century’s most powerful voices.
Anna Akhmatova (1889–1966) is an iconic figure of twentieth-century Russian literature and one of her era’s great poets. Her work has been translated into many languages. More info →
Retail price:
$19.95 ·
Save 20% ($15.96)
US and Canada only
Availability and price vary according to vendor.
Share 
Permission to reprint
Permission
to photocopy or include in a course pack
via Copyright Clearance
Center
Paperback
978-0-8040-1191-4
Retail price: $19.95,
T.
Release date: August 2017
160 pages
·
5½ × 8½ in.
Rights: North America
Electronic
978-0-8040-4084-6
Release date: August 2017
160 pages
Rights: North America
The Selected Poems of Janet Lewis
By Janet Lewis
·
Edited by R. L. Barth
Since the appearance in print of her early poems over seventy-five years ago, the poetry of Janet Lewis has grown in quiet acclaim and popularity. Although she is better known as a novelist of historical fiction, her first and last writings were poems. With the publication of her selected poems, Swallow Press celebrates the distinguished career of one of its most cherished authors.Critics
Poetry · Poetry | Women Authors · American Literature · Literature
The Selected Poems of Yvor Winters
By Yvor Winters
·
Edited by R. L. Barth
·
Introduction by Helen Pinkerton Trimpi
Yvor Winters (1900-1968) was a friend, colleague, and teacher to poets of several generations from Hart Crane and Allen Tate to J. V. Cunningham, Turner Cassity, and Edgar Bowers to Robert Hass, Philip Levine, and Robert Pinsky. His impact on mid- to late-twentieth-century poetry is profound. This stems in large part from his own poetry, which was a reflection of his critical thinking about poetry, and which underwent substantive changes over his career as a poet.
The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov
By Howard Nemerov
·
Edited by Daniel Anderson
·
Foreword by Wyatt Prunty
Judiciously selected and introduced by poet Daniel Anderson, The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov represents the broad spectrum of Nemerov’s virtues as a poet—his intelligence, his wit, his compassion, and his irreverence. It stands as the retrospective collection of the best of what Nemerov left behind, which is some of the finest poetry that the twentieth century produced.
Requiem and Poem without a Hero
By Anna Akhmatova
·
Translation by D. M. Thomas
Expressing the collective grief for the thousands vanished under Josef Stalin’s regime, “Requiem” chronicles Akhmatova’s seventeen-month wait for news of her imprisoned son’s fate, while “Poem without a Hero” chronicles the transformation of vibrant St. Petersburg into oppressive Leningrad and the pain of those left behind.
