Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named
it one of fourteen Best Books of the Year, Judith Hemschemeyer's
translation of The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova is the definitive
edition, and has sold over 13,000 copies, making it one of the most
successful poetry titles of recent years.
This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as
well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project
editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's
Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100
photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and
bibliography. The Complete Poems will be the definitive English
language collection of Akhmatova for many years to come.