Judith hemschemeyer wikipedia

Initially published in hardcover in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of the fourteen “Best Books of the Year,” this paperback English-only edition has sold over 20,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.

This reissued printing features a biographical essay as well as notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography. The Complete Poems has become the definitive English language collection of Anna Akhmatova's poetry.

 

For a fuller history of how Zephyr came to publish this remarkable book, click here.

 

Judith Hemschemeyer began translating Anna Akhmatova's poems in 1976, and completed the first