Anna Akhmatova

Your voice is wild and simple – Anna Akhmatova

“Your voice is wild and simple. You are untranslatable Into any one tongue.” Anna Akhmatova, The Complete Poems E-Book: http://www.poemhunter.com/i/ebooks/pdf/anna_akhmatova_2012_3.pdf Anna Andreyevna Gorenko(1889 – 1966), better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova (Russian and Ukrainian), was a Russian modernist poet, one of the most acclaimed writers in the Russian canon. Akhmatova’s work ranges from short lyric poems to intricately structured cycles, such as Requiem (1935–40), … Continue reading →