Mandelstam wrote many brief, spontaneous poems about his friends, enemies and everyday occurrences over his entire writing life. This volume collects them in English for the first time.
Osip Emilievich Mandelstam (1891-1938) was a Russian poet and essayist. He was the husband of Nadezhda Mandelstam and one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets. He was arrested by Joseph Stalin's government during the repression of the 1930s and sent into internal exile with his wife Nadezhda. Given a kind of reprieve, they moved to Voronezh in southwestern Russia. In 1938 Mandelstam was arrested again and sentenced to a camp in Siberia. He died that year at a transit camp.
