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Echoing Mandelstam

From the February 2013 Print Edition

Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam Selected and Translated by Christian Wiman Introduction by Ilya Kaminsky HarperCollins, 128 pages, $15.99 In the three decades before his death in a Soviet concentration camp in 1938, Osip Mandelstam produced a corpus of poems of unsurpassed power and . . . . Continue Reading »