In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025
Marosa di Giorgio illuminating both with grace and

illuminating both with grace and precision

and that most transcendent of sports – the high jump

political and precise

'Interislander' takes a specific urgency

In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus<br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025</br> Marosa di Giorgio illuminating both with grace andAnna 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