Book record
Silentium: Selected Poems
Osip Mandelstam
Translated from Russian by Andrey Kneller
Silentium: Selected Poems, by Osip Mandelstam, is a selected volume from Russia, translated by Andrey Kneller, published by CreateSpace. It is a selected Russian volume by Osip Mandelstam where silence is not absence but pressure, form, and danger. Mandelstam's silence often feels like the most concentrated form of speech, the sound a poem makes when history has made ordinary saying perilous. I would read this first for the pressure of image and cadence rather than as a puzzle waiting for its correct answer. The useful description for a book like this should give the reader a door, not a lecture: enough context to orient the shelf, then enough mystery to let the poems keep their own weather. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It shows how poetry in translation can carry local speech, private intensity, and literary history into English without becoming merely informational.
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia