“Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his – Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva – though their work is more “urgent” than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.”

“Mandelstam is the sort of poet who comes along very, very rarely. Even the two Russian poets whose work is often linked with his – Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetaeva – though their work is more “urgent” than most American poetry, seem to me to operate at a lesser charge than Mandelstam.”

— Christian Wiman