"Osip Mandelstam was one of the great Russian poets of the 20th century, with a prophetic understanding of its suffering, which he transformed into luminous poetry. Childish and wise, joyous and angry, at once complex and simple, he was sustained for 20 years by his wife and memoirist Nadezhda Mandelstam, who became, with Anna Akhmatova, the saviour of his poetry." "The Moscow Notebooks cover his years of persecution, from 1930 to 1934, when he was arrested for writing an unflattering poem about Stalin, and subjected to gruelling interrogations and torture. The Notebooks include the fatal poem - with its clinching line 'His cockroach moustache laughs, perching on his top lip' - and present a shattering portrait of Moscow before the Great Terror. He attempted suicide twice, slashing his wrists in prison, and jumping from a hospital window. Exiled to Voronezh, he seemed crushed. A friend described him then as 'in a state of numbness. His eyes were glassy. His eyelids were inflamed, and this condition never went away. His eyelashes had fallen out. His arm was in a sling.'" "But it was to be four more years before Mandelstam was completely beaten. In Voronezh he broke a silence of 18 months, writing the 90 poems of the three Voronezh Notebooks. Nadezhda's memoir Hope Against Hope includes a moving account of their time in Voronezh, and Anna Akhmatova's poem 'Voronezh' describes her visit there in 1936, when 'in the room of the exiled poet / fear and the Muse stand duty in turn / and the night is endless / and knows no dawn'."--BOOK JACKET.

The Moscow Notebooks (1930-1934)

Introduction

9

(3)

Richard McKane

`The Moscow Notebooks': An Essay

12

(13)

Victor Krivulin

FIRST MOSCOW NOTEBOOK

`This life is terrifying'

25

(1)

Armenia

26

(4)

`Don't tell anyone'

30

(1)

`The barbed speech of the Ararat gorge'

31

(1)

`How I love this people'

31

(1)

`The people howl like beasts'

32

(1)

`The Armenian language is a wild cat'

32

(1)

`On watermarked police stationery'

33

(1)

Leningrad

34

(1)

`I was a child in the world of the powerful'

35

(1)

`Let's sit in the kitchen together'

36

(1)

`Help me, O Lord, to live through this night'

36

(1)

`After midnight the heart steals'

37

(1)

`Sherry brandy'

37

(1)

`The Wolf'

38

(1)

`It is night outside'

39

(1)

`Alexander Hertzowitz'

39

(1)

`Eyelashes sting with tears'

40

(1)

`I can't hide from the chaos'

41

(1)

Untruth

41

(1)

`I drink to the military asters'

42

(1)

The Grand Piano

42

(1)

`Keep my words forever'

43

(1)

Canzone

44

(1)

Midnight in Moscow

45

(2)

`That's enough sulking'

47

(1)

Fragments from Destroyed Poems

48

(1)

The Horse-cart Driver

49

(2)

`After having dipped one's little finger'

51

(2)

`I've many years to live'

53

(4)

SECOND MOSCOW NOTEBOOK

`The factories, bathing in the Moscow river'

57

(1)

`O, how we love to play the hypocrite'

57

(1)

Lamarck

58

(1)

`When Russian gold'

59

(1)

Impressionism

60

(1)

`Remember how the young men'

61

(1)

Novellino

61

(1)

`Guess why you've given'

62

(1)

Batyushkov

63

(1)

Poem to Russian Poetry

64

(2)

To the German Language

66

(2)

`Old Crimea'

68

(1)

Ariosto

68

(2)

`It's cold in Europe, and dark in Italy'

70

(1)

`Don't tempt yourself with foreign languages'

71

(1)

`The friend of Ariosto'

71

(1)

`The flat is quiet as paper'

71

(2)

`Our sacred youth'

73

(1)

`The Tartars, Uzbeks and Nentsians'

73

(1)

`We are alive but no longer feel'

74

(1)

Octets

74

(4)

`The stream, swollen from salty tears'

78

(1)

`An orphaned nightingale sings'

78

(1)

`My days have raced past'

79

(1)

`When the earth sleeps'

80

(1)

`As water flows'

80

(1)

`You had blue eyes and a feverish brow'

81

(1)

`A few random phrases keep haunting me'

82

(1)

`When fate suddenly confronts'

83

(1)

`Who died?'

84

(1)

`He conducted the Caucasus mountains'

84

(1)

`The Caucasus mountains'

85

(1)

`A bearded engraver'

85

(1)

`For Maria Petrovykh'

86

(35)

Notes

87

(9)

Errata

96

(3)

The Voronezh Notebooks (1935-1937)

Translator's Preface

99

(4)

Richard McKane

Introduction

103

(13)

Victor Krivulin

Recognising Mandelstam

116

(5)

Richard McKane

FIRST VORONEZH NOTEBOOK

`Black candle'

121

(1)

Black Earth

122

(1)

`In strangers' homes'

123

(1)

`I must live'

123

(1)

`Voronezh'

124

(1)

`My earphones'

124

(1)

`Red Square'

125

(1)

`Mandelstam Street'

126

(1)

Children at the Barber's

127

(1)

`The Kama'

128

(2)

Stanzas

130

(2)

`The day was five-headed'

132

(1)

`Chapayev'

133

(1)

`Having deprived me'

133

(1)

`To praise a dead woman'

134

(1)

`St Isaac's'

135

(1)

`Rome nights'

136

(1)

The Violinist

137

(1)

`Wave after wave'

138

(1)

`I shall perform a smoky ceremony'

138

(1)

`The Airmen'

139

(1)

`No, it's not a migraine'

140

(2)

SECOND VORONEZH NOTEBOOK

`Sadko'

142

(1)

Birth of the Smile

142

(1)

`I'll wonder at the world'

143

(1)

`The Goldfinch'

143

(1)

`The Cage'

144

(1)

`Today is a little yellow'

144

(1)

`I am at the heart of the age'

145

(1)

`They, not you nor I'

145

(1)

`The Idol'

145

(1)

`The master gunsmith'

146

(1)

`The family sound'

146

(1)

`Zadonsk'

147

(1)

`This region is in dark water'

148

(1)

`A train of sledges'

149

(1)

`This winter touches me'

149

(1)

`The Cat'

150

(1)

`Let it be blessed'

150

(1)

`The Angry Lamb'

151

(1)

`The Sorcerer'

151

(1)

`Like a ringed hawk'

152

(1)

`Yeast of the world'

153

(1)

`Little devil'

153

(1)

`The Beggar Woman'

154

(1)

`Into the face of the frost'

154

(1)

`Oh, this slow asthmatic vastness'

155

(1)

`The deadliness of the plains'

155

(1)

`Don't make comparisons'

156

(1)

`Feminine silver burns'

156

(1)

`Mount Elbrus'

157

(1)

`Meteorite'

157

(1)

`Human heads'

157

(1)

`The early ice'

158

(1)

`I love the frosty breath'

158

(1)

`This January'

159

(1)

`Tragedies'

160

(1)

`Like Rembrandt'

160

(1)

`The breaches of circular bays'

161

(1)

`Wedding in the Caucasus'

161

(1)

`Eyesight of Wasps'

162

(1)

`Eyes sharper than a honed scythe'

162

(1)

`The worn grandeur of my soles'

163

(1)

`The words from the Kremlin'

163

(1)

`On stations and piers'

164

(1)

`The engraver's soaring art'

165

(1)

`Buried in the lion's den'

166

(2)

THIRD VORONEZH NOTEBOOK

`The sleepy, sleigh-tracked town'

168

(1)

`If our enemies captured me'

168

(1)

Rheims-Laon

169

(1)

`France'

170

(1)

Rome

171

(1)

Poem to the Unknown Soldier

172

(3)

`I will whisper this'

175

(1)

The Last Supper

176

(1)

`Lost in the sky'

176

(1)

`What can I do, lost as I am in the sky'

177

(1)

`Perhaps this is the point of madness'

177

(1)

`Little Star'

178

(1)

Winejug

179

(1)

`Joyful Crete'

179

(1)

`My Nereids'

180

(1)

`Flutes'

180

(1)

`The state shame'

181

(1)

`Some wife searches'

182

(1)

`The buds cling with a sticky promise'

182

(2)

`I present the green promise'

184

(1)

`The pear and the cherry blossom'

184

(1)

`To Natasha Shtempel'

185

(4)

Texts

189

(2)

Notes

191

(22)

Envoi

213

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