Osip Mandelstam

Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Original edition

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 Stolen Air, Christian Wiman, editor of POETRY, 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.