| Author | : Catherine Ciepiela |
| File Size | : 45,7 Mb |
| Publisher | : NYRB Classics |
| Language | : English |
| Release Date | : 19 May 2024 |
| ISBN | : UOM:39015067703754 |
| Pages | : 172 pages |
The Stray Dog Cabaret by Catherine Ciepiela Book PDF Summary
Apparently the first original publication from the New York Review imprint (exclusively a reprint house until now), this collection makes an ideally readable introduction to this sometimes forbidding, internationally admired, poetic group. Fin-de-siecle concerns of love in cafés, of sun and song, flirtation and regret, give way to darker worries as the Russian Revolution runs its course: Blok and Boris Pasternak sound particularly effective in Schmidt's libretto-like, clarified versions, while Akhmatova--grown older, immersed in sorrow--proposes a toast to the terrible world we inhabit/ And to God, who never replied. Editor Catherine Ciepela offers a long and useful introduction, along with capsule biographies of Schmidt's eight poets; poet and biographer Honor Moore adds an epilogue. --Publishers Weekly.
