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PUBLISHER: Canongate
ISBN: 9780857863553
PUBLICATION DATE:
May 7, 2012
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The Selected Poems Of Anna Akhmatova
At a time when committing poems to paper threatened to cause her arrest, Akhmatova’s close friends memorised her lines in order to keep them alive. Frank, powerful and piercingly beautiful, her work reflects the soul of her country and her people like no other.
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