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The Stray Dog cabaret : a book of Russian poems / translated by Paul Schmidt ; edited by Catherine Ciepiela, Honor Moore.

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The Stray Dog cabaret : a book of Russian poems / translated by Paul Schmidt ; edited by Catherine Ciepiela, Honor Moore.
Publication
New York : New York Review Books, c2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Schmidt, Paul, 1934-1999
  • Ciepiela, Catherine
  • Moore, Honor, 1945-
  • Brodi︠a︡chai︠a︡ sobaka (Cabaret : Saint Petersburg, Russia)
Description
xxiii, 140 p.; 21 cm.
Summary
"In the years before the 1917 Russian Revolution, the Stray Dog cabaret in St. Petersburg was the haunt of poets, artists, and musicians, a place to meet, drink, read, brawl, celebrate, and stage performances of all kinds. It has since become a symbol of the extraordinary literary ferment of that time. It was then that Alexander Blok composed his apocalyptic sequence "Twelve"; that the futurists Velimir Khlebnikov and Vladimir Mayakovsky exploded language into bold new forms; that the lapidary lyrics of Osip Mandelstam and plangent love poems of Anna Akhmatova saw the light; that the electrifying Marina Tsvetaeva stunned and dazzled everyone. Boris Pasternak was also of this company, putting together his great youthful hymn to nature, My Sister, Life." "It was a transforming moment - not just for Russian but for world poetry - and a short-lived one. Within little more than a decade, revolution and terror were to disperse, silence, and destroy almost all the poets of the Stray Dog cabaret."--Jacket.
Series Statement
New York Review Books classics
Uniform Title
New York Review Books classics
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Russian poetry > Russia (Federation) > Saint Petersburg
  • Russian poetry > 20th century
  • Russian poetry > 20th century > Translations into English
Genre/Form
Translations
Note
  • Includes poems by Alexander Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Osip Mandelstam, Velimir Khlebnikov, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Marina Tsvetaeva, Boris Pasternak, Sergei Esenin.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 1590171918 (alk. paper)
  • 9781590171912 (alk. paper)
LCCN
  • ^^2006016662
  • 9781590171912
OCLC
  • 69241496
  • SCSB-11433823
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library