{"product_id":"stolen-air-selected-poems-of-osip-mandelstam-9780062099426","title":"Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam","description":"Osip Mandelstam was perhaps the most important Russian poet of the nineteen-hundreds--a crucial instigator of the \"revolution of the word\" that took place in early twentieth-century St. Petersburg and a political non-conformist who earned the enmity of Stalin and his totalitarian regime. With \u003cem\u003eStolen Air\u003c\/em\u003e, Christian Wiman, editor of \u003cem\u003ePOETRY\u003c\/em\u003e, America's oldest and most prestigious magazine of verse, offers a new selection and translation of Mandelstam's poetry--from his hard-edged and highly formal early poems to his almost savagely musical later works--for a new generation to be moved by, marvel at, and appreciate.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWiman, Christian:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eChristian Wiman was born and raised in West Texas. He is the editor of \u003cem\u003ePoetry\u003c\/em\u003e and the author of three collections of poems, \u003cem\u003eEvery Riven Thing\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHard Night\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Long Home\u003c\/em\u003e, and one collection of prose, \u003cem\u003eAmbition and Survival: Becoming a Poet\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMandelstam, Osip:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cp\u003eOsip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was born and raised in St. Petersburg. Along with Anna Akhmatova and Nicholas Gumilev, Mandelstam formed the Acmeist group, which advocated an aesthetic of exact description and chiseled form, as suggested by the title of Mandelstam's first book, \u003cem\u003eStone\u003c\/em\u003e (1913). He settled in Moscow in 1922, where his second collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eTristia\u003c\/em\u003e, appeared. In 1934 Mandelstam was arrested and sent into exile. He wrote furiously during these years, and his wife, Nadezhda, and friends memorized his work in an effort to preserve it in case it was destroyed or lost. (Her memoirs, \u003cem\u003eHope Against Hope\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHope Abandoned\u003c\/em\u003e, later helped to bring Mandelstam a worldwide audience.) He died on December 27, 1938, in the Gulag Archipelago. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ecco Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50641648746770,"sku":"9780062099426","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_5ddf9489-83be-412b-a583-cd5d71b158bd.jpg?v=1733028048","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/stolen-air-selected-poems-of-osip-mandelstam-9780062099426","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}