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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : anxiety and the Russian Silver Age -- Literature and revolution : the case of Aleksandr Blok -- The Russian Silver Age : its makers and undertakers -- No "room of her own" : Anna Akhmatova's tenure in Soviet culture -- The winged eavesdropper : Kuzmin and Nabokov -- The Silver Age in translation : Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago -- Braving the thaw : Anna Akhmatova in the 1950s and the 1960s -- The apocalypse revisited : Viktor Erofeev's Russian beauty -- Coda : the Silver Age up close -- Appendix: Original Russian texts.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam's utopian anti-utopianism -- Anna Akhmatova's complicity -- The world. Wallace Stevens's point of view -- Reading Ezra Pound and J.H. …”
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Table of Contents: “…." / Sergey Kuznetsov -- "On the centenary of Anna Akhmatova" / Lev Loseff -- "To my daughter" / David M. …”

Table of Contents: “…Tefei -- Adelaida Gertsyk -- Anna Akhmatova -- Elizaveta Kuzmina-Karavaeva -- Vera Merkureva -- Mariya Shkapskaya -- Olga Forsh -- Sofiya Parnok -- Marina Tsvetaeva -- Ekaterina Strogova -- Anna Prismanova -- Anna Karavaeva -- Vera Bulich -- Anna Barkova -- Tatyana Esenina -- Bella Akhmadulina -- Mira Linkevich -- Elena Shvarts -- Elena Chizhova -- Lyudmila Petrushevskaya -- Nina Sadur -- Bella Ulanovskaya -- Olga Sedakova…”

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Magnetic North, Iron and Grace; Childhood and Family; The Soviets: 1939-1941; War Years: 1941-1944; Return of the Soviets; Postwar and Culture; Gymnasium; Antanas Venclova; Vilnius University; 1956 and Khrushchev's Secret Speech; Boris Pasternak; Study Group and the KGB; Moscow: 1961-1964; Anna Akhmatova; Sign of Speech; Joseph Brodsky; Civil Society and Dissidence; The Lithuanian and Moscow Helsinki Groups; Preparation for Exile; Czeslaw Milosz and Berkeley; Travels: Exile as Good Luck; The Junction: Poems; Notes; Works by Tomas Venclova; Index of Names…”
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Table of Contents: “…ANDDEUTSCHER""; ""PART THREE""; ""TWO CONCEPTS OF LIBERTY""; ""THE HEDGEHOG AND THE FOX""; ""PART FOUR""; ""ANNA AKHMATOVA""; ""BORIS PASTERNAK""; ""PART FIVE""; ""THE COLD WAR AND THE PEOPLEâ€?…”
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Table of Contents: “…Chinua Achebe / Ramona L. Hyman -- Anna Akhmatova / Vasa D. Mihailovich, Vasa D. Mihailovich -- Claribel Alegría / Linda Ledford-Miller, Caryn E. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Ghazal beginning with a couplet by Lorna Crozier -- Ghazal beginning with a poem title by Fernec Juhász -- Ghazal beginning with lines by Yiannis Ritsos -- Ghazal beginning with lines by János Pilinszky -- Ghazal beginning with lines by Theodore Roethke -- Ghazal beginning with lines by Wisława Szymborska -- Ghazal beginning with lines by Anna Akhmatova -- Ghazal beginning with lines by Pablo Neruda -- poems with movement toward the particular -- Untitled poem with one shoe in it -- Untitled poem about sensitization -- Sorrow first, and then the Fall -- The things the dead have touched…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; I WRONG EPIC; Given Silence; Towering; I Wait for the Ruined Elegance; Back from the Aegean Sea; In the Thick of It; Ionian Supper; Partita, but Nothing to Do with Bach; Few Days before Christmas; II IN A GODLESS TIME; Beginning; Spring Massacre; Mausoleum; Backstage; Day Seven; Center of a Journey; Am I What the Lake Gave Me; Meditation; Dusty Citadel; III THE BOOK, A SIMPLER GRAVE; To Whom It May Concern; Granted Asylum; Against Prologue; To Survive When It Must; Midnight Almanac; Yield, Please; Anna Akhmatova, or the Thoughts She Didn't Write.…”
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Table of Contents: “…. -- Darker human possibilities / Sven Birkerts -- Anna Akhmatova (Russia) -- Paul Celan (Romanian/Jewish [German language]) -- Zbigniew Herbert (Poland) -- Eugenio Montale (Italy) -- George Seferis (Greece) -- A sampling of other European poets -- Part IV. …”

Table of Contents: “…; The gold pistol ; The circus ; Minotaur ; Torsion ; Fortress ; Longitudes ; Daytime begins with a line by Anna Akhmatova ; Michio Ito's fox & hawk ; Caffe reggio ; Krar ; Dead reckoning II ; A night in Tunisia ; The green horse ; Ode to the oud ; Envoy to Palestine ; Timbuktu ; Ghazal, after Ferguson ; Interrogation ; Precious metals ; A prayer ; The work of Orpheus ; Empyrean isles -- Requiem.…”

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