本书收入阿赫玛托娃一生不同创作阶段近二百首（组）代表性作品及诗歌片断。既有《在深色的面纱下她绞着双手》等早期名作，又有组诗《安魂曲》这样的纪念碑式力作。《安魂曲》通过个人苦难折射民族的灾难和不幸，在控诉时代残暴的同时，歌颂了受难者的崇高和尊严。它的创作，把阿赫玛托娃推向了一个伟大的悲剧女诗人的境界。在此之前，诗人的作品以优美精致、简约克制著称，随后融入了坚韧、沉着，带着历史赋予的全部重量；后期作品保持了细部的可感性，更深层次地呈现出肃穆、庄重的风格。诗人后期的长诗《没有英雄的叙事诗》，同样是对过往时代亡灵的招魂，且伴以对同时代人的审视，成为她一生的艺术总结。 本诗选由诗人翻译家王家新编选和翻译。译笔力求忠实原作精神，充分体现阿赫玛托娃特有的气质、语调和风格特征，刷新和扩展对一位伟大女诗人的认知。

A legend in her own time both for her brilliant poetry and for her resistance to oppression, Anna Akhmatova—denounced by the Soviet regime for her “eroticism, mysticism, and political indifference”—is one of the greatest Russian poets of the twentieth century. Before the revolution, Akhmatova was a wildly popular young poet who lived a bohemian life. She was one of the leaders of a movement of poets whose ideal was “beautiful clarity”—in her deeply personal work, themes of love and mourning are conveyed with passionate intensity and economy, her voice by turns tender and fierce. A vocal critic of Stalinism, she saw her work banned for many years and was expelled from the Writers’ Union—condemned as “half nun, half harlot.” Despite this censorship, her reputation continued to flourish underground, and she is still among Russia’s most beloved poets. Here are poems from all her major works—including the magnificent “Requiem” commemorating the victims of Stalin’s terror—and some that have been newly translated for this edition.

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