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THE STRAY DOG CABARET
A BOOK OF RUSSIAN POEMS |
| By: |
Paul Schmidt (Trans), Catherine Ciepiela, Honor Moore |
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Paperback |
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£13.99 |
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£10.21 |
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£3.78 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1590171918 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781590171912 |
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| Publisher: |
THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS, INC |
| Pub. date: |
3 February, 2007 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
168 |
| Translated from: |
Russian |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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US |
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NYRB Classics |
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