Mandelstam Variations

This book, by the outstanding English poet, uses the poetic mode to tell the story of Osip Mandelstam, the Russian poet crushed by Stalin. By dove-tailing over forty poems into an overall fictional address, Morley creates his own interpretation of Mandelstam’s mind recreate life and death in a totalitarian state – a recreation of the man who, in the face of Soviet orthodoxy, interrogations, and intermittent jail sentences, wrote compelling poetry until his death upon deportation in 1938.

Poetry; 1993 • 6 x 9 inches • 75 pages • 9781550960846