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Selected Poems: Natalya Gorbanevskaya
Author(s): Natalya Gorbanevskaya (Author)
- Publisher: Carcanet Press Ltd
- Publication Date: 25 Aug. 2011
- Language: English
- Print length: 180 pages
- ISBN-10: 1847770851
- ISBN-13: 9781847770851
Book Description
In 1969 Natalya Gorbanevskaya was sentenced to imprisonment in a Soviet psychiatric hospital for her dissident activities; in 1972 Carcanet published Daniel Weissbort’s first translations of her poems, with a transcript of her trial. In this new, enlarged selection of translations he returns to a poet who has continued, in exile, to engage with the cause of human freedom and the poetic traditions of her homeland. Anna Akhmatova regarded Gorbanevskaya as one of the small group of poets who kept Russian poetry alive. Weissbort, one of the leading translator’s of Russian poetry in Britain, expands our understanding of the continuing vitality of her work. An interview with Valentina Polukhina in which Gorbanevskaya discusses her life and beliefs provides illuminating context.
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About the Author
Natalya Gorbanevskaya was born in Moscow in 1936. Expelled from Moscow University, she graduated in Philology from Leningrad University. She was arrested in 1968 for protesting against the Soviet-led invasion of Czechoslovakia. She worked for the newspaper Russkaya Mysl until 2001. She now lives in Paris, where she publishes poetry collections. Daniel Weissbort was co-founder with Ted Hughes and editor (1965-2003) of Modern Poetry in Translation. He co-edited An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets (Carcanet, 2005).
