From the Publisher
Initially published in 1990, when the
New York Times Book Review named it one of fourteen "Best Books of the Year," Judith Hemschemeyer's translation of
The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive edition, and has sold 11,000 copies to date, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years.
This reissued and revised edition features a new biographical essay as well as expanded 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 sets a unique standard.
