{"product_id":"9781629633992","title":"Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems","description":"Victor Serge (1890–1947) played many parts, as he recounted in his indelible\u003ci\u003e Memoirs of a Revolutionary\u003c\/i\u003e. The son of anti-czarist exiles in Brussels, Serge was a young anarchist in Paris; a syndicalist rebel in Barcelona; a Bolshevik in Petrograd; a Comintern agent in Central Europe; a comrade of Trotsky's; a friend of writers like Andrei Bely, Boris Pilnyak, and André Breton; a prisoner of Stalin; a dissident Marxist in exile in Mexico . . . A novelist, a literary critic, a political journalist, and a historian of the Russian Revolution, Serge was also a formidable poet. In \u003ci\u003eA Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, Victor Serge bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the \"immense shipwreck\" of Stalin's ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd, Orenburg, Paris, Marseille, the Caribbean, and Mexico, Serge composed elegies for the fallen who, like him, endured prison, exile, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century: Night falls, the boat pulls in, stop singing. Exile relights its captive lampson the shore of time.  \u003ci\u003eA Blaze in a Desert \u003c\/i\u003ecomprises Victor Serge's sole published book of poetry, \u003ci\u003eResistance\u003c\/i\u003e (1938), his unpublished manuscript \u003ci\u003eMessages\u003c\/i\u003e (1946), and his last poem, \"Hands\" (1947).","brand":"PM Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135427952880,"sku":"9781629633992","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781629633992_p0.jpg?v=1763870331","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781629633992","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}