Pillar of Fire,9780856463105

Pillar of Fire

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ISBN13: 9780856463105
ISBN10: 0856463108
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2004-06-01
Publisher(s): Anvil Press Poetry
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Summary

One of the finest poets of the Silver Age of Russian literature.

Author Biography

Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov (1886-1921) was the cofounder of the Acmeist school of poetry, later joined by Osip Mandelstam among others. After his marriage to Anna Akhmatova and before World War I, he travelled in Africa. He was shot in August 1921, falsely accused of participating in an anti-Bolshevik conspiracy. Richard McKane is a poet and translator of poetry from Russian and Turkish. He lives and works in London.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface 13(17)
Introduction 17(18)
Michael Basker
from ROMANTIC FLOWERS (1908)
In the Heavens
35(1)
Thoughts
36(1)
Rejection
37(1)
Hyena
38(1)
Jaguar
39(1)
Terror
40(1)
The Lion's Bride
41(1)
The Gardens of my Soul
42(1)
Plague
43(1)
Giraffe
44(1)
Lake Chad
45(4)
from PEARLS (1910)
Barbarians
49(2)
Agamemnon's Warrior
51(1)
Eagle
52(1)
Christ
53(1)
Marquis de Karabas
54(2)
Journey to China
56(2)
Lakes
58(1)
Rendezvous
59(1)
`Do you remember the palace...'
60(1)
Kangaroo
61(1)
Parrot
62(1)
Reader of Books
63(1)
`Flowers don't live in my home'
64(1)
This Happened Often
65(1)
Prayer
65(1)
`The palm groves and the aloe thickets'
66(1)
Evening
67(1)
Captains I
68(5)
from ALIEN SKY (1912)
To a Girl
73(1)
Doubt
74(1)
Fragment
75(1)
Constantinople
76(1)
Modernity
77(1)
Sonnet
78(1)
From a Dragon's Lair
79(1)
I Believed, I Thought
80(1)
Poisoned
81(1)
By the Fire
82(2)
The Ragamuffin
84(3)
from QUIVER (1916)
Venice
87(1)
Conversation
88(2)
Five-Foot Iambics
90(3)
Judith
93(1)
Stanzas
94(1)
Bird
95(1)
Cantos
96(2)
The Sun of the Spirit
98(1)
Mediaeval
99(1)
To Someone Going Away
100(2)
The Sea Again
102(1)
African Night
103(1)
The Advance
104(1)
Chinese Girl
105(1)
Heaven
106(1)
Islam
107(1)
Fable
108(5)
from BONFIRE (1918)
Trees
113(1)
Autumn
114(1)
Childhood
115(1)
The Ice Flow
116(1)
I and You
117(1)
The Peasant
118(2)
The Workman
120(1)
On the North Sea
121(2)
Comfort
123(1)
She Scatters Stars
124(1)
About You
125(1)
Dream
126(1)
Ezbekie
127(4)
from THE PORCELAIN PAVILION (1918)
The Porcelain Pavilion
131(1)
Moon over the Sea
132(1)
`Joyful heart, winged heart'
133(1)
Nature
134(1)
Three Wives of the Mandarin
135(1)
Happiness
136(3)
from TENT (1921)
The Suez Canal
139(2)
The Equatorial Forest
141(6)
from BLUE STAR (1917--18; pub. 1923)
`From a whole bouquet of lilac'
147(1)
`We flew through bright alleys'
148(1)
Shame
149(1)
`Just black velvet...'
150(1)
`The golden night was flying by'
151(1)
`Monotonous, my days flash past'
152(1)
`The soul dozed...'
153(1)
`Your tormenting, miraculous'
154(1)
`My heart had fought for so long'
155(1)
`I said: ``Do you want me...'''
156(1)
`A tenderly unprecedented joy'
157(1)
Haiku
157(4)
THE PILLAR OF FIRE (1921)
Memory
161(3)
The Forest
164(2)
The World
166(1)
The Soul and the Body
167(3)
First Canto
170(1)
Second Canto
171(1)
Imitation of the Persian
172(1)
The Persian Miniature
173(2)
Sixth Sense
175(1)
Baby Elephant
176(1)
The Tram that Lost its Way
177(3)
Olga
180(1)
With the Gypsies
181(2)
The Drunk Dervish
183(1)
The Leopard
184(2)
The Master Craftsmen's Prayer
186(1)
Ring
187(2)
Bird-Girl
189(3)
My Readers
192(2)
Star Terror
194(9)
LATE POEMS (1918--21)
My Hour
203(2)
To ***
205(1)
`The white willow...'
206(1)
A Sentimental Journey
207(4)
The Turkey
211(1)
`No, nothing has changed'
212(1)
`The poet is lazy...'
213(1)
`You and I are bound...'
214(1)
`Don't call the blind music...'
214(1)
`The heart is more aflame...'
215(1)
`I played a joke on myself'
216(1)
`I came back'
217(2)
Notes 219(24)
Michael Basker
Instead of an Epilogue: Some poems by Anna Akhmatova to or about Nikolay Gumilyov 243(5)
Notes to Akhmatova poems 248
Michael Basker

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