Portraits Without Frames: Selected Poems

Portraits Without Frames: Selected Poems

by Maria Bloshteyn (Translator), Boris Dralyuk (Translator), Boris Dralyuk (Translator), Lev Ozerov (Author), Maria Bloshteyn (Translator), Robert Chandler (Translator), Irina Mashinki (Translator)

Synopsis

Lev Ozerov's finest book, Portraits Without Frames comprises fifty intimate, skillfully crafted accounts of meetings with important figures, ranging from fellow poets Anna Akhmatova and Boris Pasternak, to prose writers Isaac Babel and Andrey Platonov, to artists and composers Vladimir Tatlin and Dmitry Shostakovich. It is both a testament to an extraordinary life and a perceptive mini-encyclopedia of Soviet culture. Composed in delicate, rhythmic free verse, Ozerov's portraits are like nothing else in Russian poetry.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
Edition: 01
Publisher: Granta Books
Published: 15 Nov 2018

ISBN 10: 1783784717
ISBN 13: 9781783784714
Book Overview: A classic of Russian poetry, comprising fifty portraits of the great creative figures (some of them celebrated, many of them disappeared or suppressed) of Soviet culture.

Author Bio
Lev Ozerov (1914-1996), born Lev Goldberg, was a poet and literary critic of Jewish Ukrainian origin, and a prominent name in Soviet literature in his day. He is justly celebrated for his efforts to preserve the creative heritage of poets of his own generation who perished in the years of Stalinist repressions.