In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus
Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025
Anthony Anaxagorou Those 'not quites' are a

Those 'not quites' are a keynote – what might have been and what actually is

In Battery Rocks

translated by Forrest Gander

traveller and watcher of the world – describing himself as a 'mongrel'

provided a space for experimental reflection on literature’s status as art & cultural mediator

In Love and Revolution: Selected Poems by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stephen Capus<br><b>Poetry Book Society Translation Choice Spring 2025</br> Anthony Anaxagorou Those 'not quites' are aAnna 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