In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025
Anthony Anaxagorou traveller and watcher of the

traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a 'mongrel'

doomed or otherwise

and communal significance to Pablo Neruda or Nicolás Guillén

the emerald tigers that leap in a throat

Each poem brings past and present into focus

In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus<br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025</br> Anthony Anaxagorou traveller and watcher of theAnna Akhmatova was born near Odesa, Ukraine, in 1889, as Anna Gorenko. She adopted her pen name from the family of her mother. She attended school in Tsarskoe Selo, near St. Petersburg, and lived most of her life in that city with which so much of her poetry is intimately connected. She frequented the Tower, the famous literary salon of the symbolist poet Vyacheslav Ivanov, and in 1910 she married fellow poet Nikolay Gumilev. The couple were divorced