{"product_id":"a-close-reading-of-fifty-three-poems-by-semyon-izrailevich-lipkin-paperback","title":"A Close Reading of Fifty-three Poems by Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYvonne Green\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSergei Makarov\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eDonald Rayfield\u003c\/b\u003e (Introduction by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Jewish, Odesa-born poet, Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin (1911-2003), was a central figure in modern Russian literature, although until recently he was best known in the West for his role in preserving the manuscript of Vasily Grossman's \u003cem\u003eLife and Fate\u003c\/em\u003e from the KGB.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a Soviet journalist in WW2, he witnessed and wrote about the horrors of Stalingrad which led the Nobel Laureate Josef Brodsky to refer to him as 'Russia's war poet'.\u003cbr\u003eLater, during the years of Stalin's deportation of ethnic groups, Lipkin translated and preserved the language and writings of Tajiks, Uzbeks, Tatars and in doing so became a living repository of their culture for which he risked censure and arrest from the Soviet authorities.\u003cbr\u003eThe poems in this volume show the remarkable range of Lipkin's work: his Jewish faith, Stalin's oppression, the Holocaust, and the spiritual fate of mankind and reveal why as a poet he was revered by great Russian writers such as Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Anna Akhmatova and Josef Brodsky.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 204\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.43 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 17, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53377652261171,"sku":"9781739778521","price":27.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/8Y0Cc0bVo-9781739778521.webp?v=1779326032","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/a-close-reading-of-fifty-three-poems-by-semyon-izrailevich-lipkin-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}