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Octets
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| Octets written by Osip Mandelstam | I love the appearance… (1) → |
| Included in Moscow Notebooks. See also Poems. This cycle of eleven poems was written in 1932-35 (Moscow — Voronezh). In Russian: Восьмистишия. |
Contents:
- I. I love the uprise of a texture… (1)
- II. I love the uprise of a texture… (2)
- III. O butterfly, O Moslem-woman…
- IV. The tiny appendage of the sixth sense…
- V. Overcoming the firmness of nature…
- VI. When, after destroying the sketches…
- VII. And Schubert on the water, and Mozart in the bird's hubbub…
- VIII. And the toothed paw of the maple…
- IX. Tell me, Desert Draftsman...
- X. From needle-shaped pestilential glasses...
- XI. And I go out from space…
English Translations
There are known a few translations of the whole cycle to English published in:
- Osip Mandelstam: "Octets" 66-76, translated by Donald Davie, "Agenda", vol. 14, no. 2, 1976.
- John RILEY: "The Collected Works". Grossteste (Derbyshire), 1980.
- Osip Mandelstam: The Moscow Notebooks translated by Richard and Elizabeth McKane, Bloodaxe Books, 1991, Newcastle upon Tyne ISBN 1852241268.
Four of the "Octets" were included into:
- Osip Mandelstam: "Selected Poems", translated by David McDuff. Farrar, Strauss and Giroux (New York) and, with minor corrections, Rivers Press (Cambridge), 1973.
Octets. Osip Mandelstam Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam (1891 – 1938)
