Centuries Encircle Me with Fire: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. A Bilingual English-Russian Edition

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is a highly influential poet of the 20th century. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by Ian Probstein, offers a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems to Anglophone audiences, providing a deeper understanding of his poetics through contextualization. The English translations, done by a Russian-born Probstein who spent most of his life in the US, offer a unique perspective and immersion in the Russian sources and language.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 304 pages
Publication date: 05 May 2022
Publisher: Academic Studies Press

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, offers Anglophone audiences a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context. The English translations presented here are so deeply immersed in the Russian sources and language through the ear of a Russian-born Probstein who has spent most of his adult life in the US that they provide readers with a Mandelstam unseen in any translations that precede it.
Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, offers Anglophone audiences a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context. The English translations presented here are so deeply immersed in the Russian sources and language through the ear of a Russian-born Probstein who has spent most of his adult life in the US that they provide readers with a Mandelstam unseen in any translations that precede it.

Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) is widely regarded as one of the most influential poets of the 20th century. This collection, compiled, translated, and edited by poet and scholar Ian Probstein, offers Anglophone audiences a powerful selection of Mandelstam's most beloved and haunting poems. Both scholars and general readers will gain a deeper understanding of his poetics, as Probstein situates each poem in its historical and literary context. The English translations presented here are so deeply immersed in the Russian sources and language through the ear of a Russian-born Probstein who has spent most of his adult life in the US that they provide readers with a Mandelstam unseen in any translations that precede it.

Weight: 28g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781644697177