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title: "Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam – Important Twentieth-Century Russian Verse from a Political Non-Conformist Who Defied Stalin"
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# Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam – Important Twentieth-Century Russian Verse from a Political Non-Conformist Who Defied Stalin

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Energizing and Fresh
*by M***. on February 23, 2024*

I love the fact that Wiman acknowledges that these poems are not pure "translations" as much as his own poetic permutations. To the purists who would disparage this impulse, let me say, if only we could all be so lucky--to have a reader centuries after our death reinvigorate our work in a new language, while retaining the heart and ear of the original pieces. This book is a revelation--absolutely one of my favorite books of all time. Every time I read it, "I [am] alive in the blizzard of the blossoming pear" and the self-shattering power of this book as well.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ With the best, and beyond
*by T***M on May 15, 2012*

I have been reading the poems of Osip Mandelstam in translation since I first encountered him through Nadezhda Mandelstam's magnificent memoir, Hope Against Hope, in 1970. Many very fine poets have produced fine versions in English of the poems and prose of the most amazing Russian poet of modern times--one is tempted to say, certainly one of the most amazing poets, period. W.S. Merwin and Clarence Brown, James Green, Sidney Monas, Bernard Meares, and others have helped make him available to those of us with limited or no Russian.Now we have Christian Wiman and Ilya Kaminsky's magnificent Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam. I do not mean in any way to denigrate the achievements of the other poets and translators, but only to say that Wiman and Kaminsky have created a truly great book, a work of power and poetry that brings Mandelstam to us (that in itself is a great achievement), offering him to us in the form of English poems that stand with the best of modern poetry--not just of translations (of which we are privileged in our time to have many that achieve greatness as translation--from Daniel Mendelsohn, John Ashbery, Richard Howard, to name only a few) but great poetry. For anyone who values Mandelstam, for anyone who cares at all about poetry, Wiman's volume is essential. Read it however you can, buy it if you can. You will treasure it.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Always Great, Sometimes Stunning
*by Z***F on January 24, 2019*

I wrote out a longer version of this review with quotes from a number of the poems. I ditched it. The whole is so much better than the tease of passages. Every poem in this book is great. And sometimes, maybe often, Wiman's versions of Mandelstam's poems are absolutely stunning. I say "Wiman's versions" because many of these are more than just translations. They are English language versions of Mandelstam's poems created with license to give the feeling of Mandelstam instead of the precise words of Mandelstam. I like Wiman's own poetry as well, but I do not find that these poems are close in style to Wiman's own poetry. He and his muses have achieved an amazing volume of poetry. I am giving copies of this book to children and grandchildren, something I almost never do. They are that good.

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