The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (New York

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The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (New York Review Books Classics)
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A master anthology of Russiaâ€™s most important poetry, newly collected and never before published in English

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 â€œTwelveâ€; 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 momentâ€”not just for Russian but for world poetryâ€”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.
Country USA
Brand New York Review of Books
Manufacturer NYRB Classics
Binding Paperback
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2006-12-05
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781590171912

Country	USA
Brand	New York Review of Books
Manufacturer	NYRB Classics
Binding	Paperback
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2006-12-05
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781590171912

The Stray Dog Cabaret: A Book of Russian Poems (New York Review Books Classics)

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