Anna Akhmatova Selected Poems 1989 Signed McKane Lalic
Anna Akhmatova SELECTED POEMS Translated by Richard McKane Bloodaxe Books, Great Britain, 1989. Paperback . Size: 21,6 x 13,8 cm. Pp. 336 with three illustrations. Cover portrait by K. Petrov – Vodkin (1992). Frontispiece by Elizabeth McKane. The copy is inscribed and signed by Richard McKane, to Serbian poet Ivan V. Lalic. There is some scratch on the cover and edges are a slightly bumped. Otherwise, a very nice copy. For condition and details see scans.
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Worldwide shipping and handling charges for this item $ 16. Buyers from US pays $ 16. Domestic shipping $ 4 refers to Serbia only.
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Anna Akhmatova (1889 –1966; was born at Bolshoy Fontan) was the pen name of the modernist poet Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, one of the most acclaimed female writers in the Russian canon. Her work was condemned and censored by Stalinist authorities and she is notable for choosing not to emigrate, and remaining in Russia, acting as witness to the atrocities around her. Anna started writing poetry at the age of 11, and published in her late teens, inspired by the poets Nikolay Nekrasov, Racine, Pushkin, Baratynsky and the Symbolists. She was awarded in 1964 Etna-Taormina prize, and in 1965 honorary doctorate from Oxford University. Her work is known for accuracy, clarity and naturalness of expression. Its powerful female emotion, with all its qualities, brought the refreshments in the Russian poetry.
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Ivan V. Lalic (1931 – 1996) was one of the most significant Serbian poets writing after World War II with a reputation as one of the finest European poets of his time. Also one of the leading poets of contemporary neosymbolism poetry in Serbia. He had also been writing essays and literary critics and versifying English and French poetry into Serbian language. Lalic edited few antologies of poetry. He was sincerly appreciated among colleague poets of his time all over the world as it can be seen in many inscriptions wrote to him on books he received as sign of respect and appreciation.
