Osip Mandelstam

Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (also spelled Mandelshtam; Russian: О́сип Эми́льевич Мандельшта́м; January 15, 1891 – December 27, 1938) was a Russian poet and essayist, one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school of poets.

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• We live, but we do not feel the land beneath us,
  Ten steps away and our words cannot be heard.
  • "Stalin Epigram" (November 1933) (Russian: Мы живем, под собою не чуя страны...; English: "We live, not sensing our own country beneath us",) trans. A. S. Kline

• Only in Russia poetry is respected – it gets people killed. Is there anywhere else where poetry is so common a motive for murder?
  • Quoted in Nadezhda Mandelstam, Hope Against Hope: A Memoir (1970), ch. 35

External links

• Books and Writers: Osip (Emilevich) Mandelstam
• Osip Mandelstam - Life Stories, Books, and Links
• Osip Emilyevich Mandelshtam, essay by Vitaly Charny
• The Danger Zone essay by Edna O'Brien
• 24 Poems by Mandelstam, translated by A. S. Kline
• 44 More Poems by Mandelstam, translated by A. S. Kline
• Osip Mandelstam. Tristia (tranlsation by Ilya Shambat)
• Russian Library: Mandelshtam (bilingual edition)
• Poet Page: Osip Emelievich Mandelshtam
• The Stalin Epigram by Osip Mandelstam translated by W. S. Merwin
• Osip Mandelstam Stalin Epigram translated by Darran Anderson
• Mandelstam in English by Martin Turner
• Poetic Injustice. On Osip Mandelstam by Adam Kirsch