{"product_id":"9780939010820","title":"Lions and Acrobats","description":"\u003cp\u003eAnatoly Genrikovich Naiman, poet, novelist, critic and literary translator, was born in 1936 into a family of followers of Tolstoy. Having studied as an engineer, he became one of the Leningrad group of young poets (including his friend Joseph Brodsky) around Anna Akhmatova, whose literary secretary he became from 1962 until her death in 1966, and about whom he wrote the invaluable and popular memoir, \u003ci\u003eRemembering Anna Akhmatova\u003c\/i\u003e . In 2001 two of his novels (most recently \u003ci\u003eSir\u003c\/i\u003e ) was shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNaiman’s work as critic, memoirist and translator (of Leopardi, Provençal poets, and T. S. Eliot, among others) has often eclipsed his own poetry. \u003ci\u003eLions and Acrobats\u003c\/i\u003e —a selection of work from his first four books of poetry in Russian—displays, for the first time in English, the full breadth of Naiman’s poetic output.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eAnatoly Naiman\u003c\/b\u003e has been a fellow at Oxford University and at the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center and has lectured on Russian literature at a host of universities in Europe and the United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eFrank Reeve\u003c\/b\u003e is a poet, scholar, anthologist and author of a dozen books of translation from Russian and reportage on Russian affairs, including \u003ci\u003eFive Short Novels by Turgenev\u003c\/i\u003e , the two-volume \u003ci\u003eAnthology of Russian Plays\u003c\/i\u003e , \u003ci\u003eThe Garden\u003c\/i\u003e (poems by Bella Akhmadulina) and \u003ci\u003eRobert Frost in Russia\u003c\/i\u003e , which was also published by Zephyr Press.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eMargo Shohl Rosen\u003c\/b\u003e, poet and translator, is a doctoral candidate at Columbia University’s Department of Slavic Languages. Her translations have been published in the \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eMississippi Review\u003c\/i\u003e . Her own poetry has appeared in \u003ci\u003eOktiabr’\u003c\/i\u003e . In 2004 she was co-winner of the Slavic department’s Pushkin Prize for best poetry translation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Zephyr Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47013213634800,"sku":"9780939010820","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780939010820_p0.jpg?v=1763863329","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780939010820","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}