The Voronezh Workbooks by Osip Mandelstam trans. By Alistair Noon Ana Blandiana from sprints to endurance

from sprints to endurance

Don’t Call Us Dead opens with a heartrending sequence that imagines an afterlife for black men shot by police

and fondness for variousness mark every page

and also such deep lyric knowledge

The Voronezh Workbooks by Osip Mandelstam trans. By Alistair Noon Ana Blandiana from sprints to enduranceOsip Mandelstam spent three years in internal exile in the city of Voronezh, in south western Russia, after someone in his circle of acquaintances had informed the Soviet authorities of his "Stalin Epigram" in 1934. The ninety odd poems he wrote there are the pinnacle of his poetic achievement, bearing witness to Mandelstam's consistent independence of mind and concern for the freedom of thought. More covertly and controversially, however, they also