Podcasts about Anna Akhmatova

Elizabeth Barrett (1806-1861) was one of the most prolific and accomplished poets of the Victorian age, an inspiration to Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, Edgar Allan Poe, and countless others. And yet, her life was full of cloistered misery, as her father insisted that she should never marry. And then, the clouds lifted, and a letter arrived. It was from the poet Robert Browning (1812-1889), admiring her from afar, declaring his love. How did these two poets find each other? What kind of life did they share afterwards? And what dark secrets had led to her father's restrictions…and how might that have affected his daughter's poetry? Host Jacke Wilson takes a look at the story of the Brownings. This episode originally ran as episode 95 on May 29, 2017. It is presented here without commercial interruption. Additional listening: 415 "Goblin Market" by Christina Rossetti 130 The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani 138 Why Poetry? (with Matthew Zapruder) Music Credits: “Handel – Entrance to the Queen of Sheba” by Advent Chamber Orchestra (From the Free Music Archive / CC by SA). “Monkeys Spinning Monkeys” and “Piano Between” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

durée : 00:05:43 - L'Instant poésie - Ce poème dit la douleur de la poétesse face à la disparition de son fils, emprisonné dans le cadre des répressions sévissant à cette époque en URSS. - invités : Wajdi Mouawad Auteur, metteur en scène, comédien et directeur du théâtre national de la Colline

"The sound of waves and voices intertwine in an endless field, creating an immersive experience that echoes through the depths of the Neva River. Field recordings were processed through a resonator to expand space and enhance sub-bass frequencies. "A tape-recorded and processed recitation of the poem Requiem by Anna Akhmatova adds lyrical meaning to the composition. The Peter and Paul Fortress is not merely a tourist attraction with museums and an 18th-century architectural ensemble but also a place of memory and mourning. Once the main political prison of the Russian Empire, it held figures such as Bakunin, Dostoyevsky, Kropotkin, the Decembrists, and many other philosophers, revolutionaries, and intellectuals. "Understanding the cultural and historical context of the places we visit is essential. The sound of waves hitting the granite embankment has echoed for over 300 years—these frequencies carry deep significance, preserving the past that is worth recognizing and remembering." Peter and Paul Fortress, St. Petersburg reimagined by Oyuun Tuule. IMAGE: Alex 'Florstein' Fedorov, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons ——————— This sound is part of the Sonic Heritage project, exploring the sounds of the world's most famous sights. Find out more and explore the whole project: https://www.citiesandmemory.com/heritage

For decades, the Soviet Union was unfriendly territory for poets and writers. But what happened when the wall fell? Emerging from the underground, the poets reacted with a creative outpouring that responded to a brave new world. In this episode, Jacke talks to Russian poetry scholar Stephanie Sandler about her new book The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989-2022, which shows how contemporary Russian poetry both expressed and exemplified freedom - and how that initial burst of freedom has responded to subsequent geopolitical developments. Additional listening: 130 The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani 479 Auden and the Muse of History (with Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb) 501 The Naked World (with Irina Mashinski) The music in this episode is by Gabriel Ruiz-Bernal. Learn more at gabrielruizbernal.com. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

durée : 00:06:38 - L'Instant poésie - Ce poème de Sophie Marceau est un hommage à la poétesse russe pacifiste Anna Akhmatova. Pour l'actrice, cette dernière incarne l'histoire de la souffrance et de la résistance, mais elle évoque aussi les souvenirs du tournage de "Anna Karénine", sorti en 1997. - invités : Sophie Marceau Comédienne et réalisatrice

Amanda Holmes reads Anna Akhmatova's “Three Things Enchanted Him …” translated from the Russian by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Have a suggestion for a poem by a (dead) writer? Email us: podcast@theamericanscholar.org. If we select your entry, you'll win a copy of a poetry collection edited by David Lehman. This episode was produced by Stephanie Bastek and features the song “Canvasback” by Chad Crouch. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

durée : 01:00:07 - Marin Karmitz, distributeur, producteur, fondateur de la société MK2 - par : Priscille Lafitte - Le producteur de films Marin Karmitz parle de ses attaches roumaines, ses liens avec le compositeur Georges Enesco et le ténor Petre Munteanu, son admiration pour le 2e trio de Dimitri Chostakovitch et les oeuvres de la poétesse Anna Akhmatova. Un Musique Emoi résolument tourné vers l'Est... - réalisé par : Claire Lagarde

Richard Wilbur was born in New York City on March 1, 1921 and studied at Amherst College before serving in the U.S. Army during World War II. He later attended Harvard University.Wilbur's first book of poems, The Beautiful Changes and Other Poems (Reynal & Hitchcock) was published in 1947. Since then, he has published several books of poems, including Anterooms: New Poems and Translations (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010); Collected Poems, 1943–2004 (Harvest Books, 2004); Mayflies: New Poems and Translations (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2000); New and Collected Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988), which won the Pulitzer Prize; The Mind-Reader: New Poems (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976); Walking to Sleep: New Poems and Translations (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969); Advice to a Prophet and Other Poems (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961); Things of This World (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1956), for which he received the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award; and Ceremony and Other Poems (Harcourt, Brace & World, 1950).Wilbur also published numerous translations of French plays—specifically those of the seventeenth century French dramatists Molière and Jean Racine—as well as poetry by Paul Valéry, François Villon, Charles Baudelaire, Anna Akhmatova, Joseph Brodsky, and others. Wilbur is also the author of several books for children and a few collections of prose pieces, and has edited such books as Poems of Shakespeare (Penguin Books, 1966) and The Complete Poems of Poe (Dell Publishing Company, 1959).About Wilbur's poems, one reviewer for the Washington Post said, “Throughout his career Wilbur has shown, within the compass of his classicism, enviable variety. His poems describe fountains and fire trucks, grasshoppers and toads, European cities and country pleasures. All of them are easy to read, while being suffused with an astonishing verbal music and a compacted thoughtfulness that invite sustained reflection.”Among Wilbur's honors are the Wallace Stevens Award, the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Frost Medal, the Gold Medal for Poetry from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, two Bollingen Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize, a Ford Foundation Award, two Guggenheim Fellowships, the Edna St. Vincent Millay Memorial Award, the Harriet Monroe Poetry Award, the National Arts Club medal of honor for literature, two PEN translation awards, the Prix de Rome Fellowship, and the Shelley Memorial Award. He was elected a chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques and is a former poet laureate of the United States.Wilbur served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 1961 to 1995. He died on October 15, 2017 in Belmont, Massachusetts.-bio via Academy of American Poets Get full access to The Daily Poem Podcast at dailypoempod.substack.com/subscribe

durée : 00:07:20 - Epilogue de Anna Akhmatova

Anna Akhmatova, cette poète russe au destin des plus tragiques qui a pourtant marqué le monde de la poésie du XXè siècle. Geneviève Brisac nous raconte son histoire passionnante dans son nouveau livre éponyme « Anna Akhmatova, portrait », pour Vous m'en direz des nouvelles. C'est une histoire passionnante que vient nous raconter Geneviève Brisac avec son nouveau livre « Anna Akhmatova, portrait », dans Vous m'en direz des nouvelles. Celle d'une grande poète russe qui subit un destin à la fois tragique et grandiose. Anna Akhmatova, c'était une femme dont les 2 maris furent assassinés. Une mère dont le fils fut déporté. Une artiste qui vécut en Russie au XXè siècle une vie brûlante, traversée par la misère et la mort, sans jamais renoncer à écrire le monde. C'était aussi une femme qui a écrit sur les autres femmes pour leur rendre hommage.À son image, Geneviève Brisac confirme son goût pour les héroïnes avec la biographie, émouvante et subversive, qu'elle lui consacre.Anna Akhmatova, portrait, vient de paraître aux éditions Seghers.Reportage : Marjorie Bertin s'est rendue à la Maison de Victor Hugo, où « Victor Hugo s'escrime », retrace l'histoire du poète et se sert de la métaphore de l'escrime pour imager les combats de sa vie.

Anna Akhmatova, cette poète russe au destin des plus tragiques qui a pourtant marqué le monde de la poésie du XXè siècle. Geneviève Brisac nous raconte son histoire passionnante dans son nouveau livre éponyme « Anna Akhmatova, portrait », pour Vous m'en direz des nouvelles. C'est une histoire passionnante que vient nous raconter Geneviève Brisac avec son nouveau livre « Anna Akhmatova, portrait », dans Vous m'en direz des nouvelles. Celle d'une grande poète russe qui subit un destin à la fois tragique et grandiose. Anna Akhmatova, c'était une femme dont les 2 maris furent assassinés. Une mère dont le fils fut déporté. Une artiste qui vécut en Russie au XXè siècle une vie brûlante, traversée par la misère et la mort, sans jamais renoncer à écrire le monde. C'était aussi une femme qui a écrit sur les autres femmes pour leur rendre hommage.À son image, Geneviève Brisac confirme son goût pour les héroïnes avec la biographie, émouvante et subversive, qu'elle lui consacre.Anna Akhmatova, portrait, vient de paraître aux éditions Seghers.Reportage : Marjorie Bertin s'est rendue à la Maison de Victor Hugo, où « Victor Hugo s'escrime », retrace l'histoire du poète et se sert de la métaphore de l'escrime pour imager les combats de sa vie.

Today's poem is from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “What is the role of poetry during war? Does it have a function? Then and now, poets and readers of poetry see language as the terrain where we find ourselves heard and affirmed in our beliefs. Poets protest, bear witness, and mourn.” Celebrate the power of poems with a gift to The Slowdown today. Every donation makes a difference: https://tinyurl.com/rjm4synp

Avec Laurent Coq (piano) & Guilhem Flouzat (batterie) « Si ses poèmes sont des poèmes d'amour, la tragédie collective qu'Anna Akhmatova traverse avec son peuple est le fil rouge de son œuvre. Une tragédie qu'elle prophétise et traduit tout au long de sa vie… Ses chants d'amour et de désespoir forment la plus pudique et la plus déchirante des autobiographies. » Geneviève Brisac consacre un magnifique portrait à cette immense poétesse russe qu'était Anna Akhmatova. C'est en soeur et en poétesse d'aujourd'hui qu'elle nous fait redécouvrir la lucidité et le courage d'une femme que le régime communiste a voulu réduire au silence. En partenariat avec France Culture. À lire – Geneviève Brisac, Anna Akhmatova, portrait, Seghers, 2024

durée : 00:29:22 - Poésie et ainsi de suite - par : Manou Farine - "Je vais tout droit et de travers, vers jamais et vers nulle part, comme un train qui déraille" écrivait-elle. Aujourd'hui poèmes d'amour et de guerre. Lire et écrire Anna Akhmatova, avec Geneviève Brisac qui signe un portrait de la poétesse russe aux éditions Seghers. - invités : Geneviève Brisac Normalienne, agrégée de lettres, éditrice et écrivaine

Not since the classic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has there been such a call to adventure. Whether you're an armchair traveler, an occasional tourist, a seasoned globe-trotter, a daring adventurer, or an intrepid explorer, there's something for you in LOOKING FOR LEGENDS: Let Us Take You Somewhere You've Never Been Before, and Introduce You to Our Friends (Whole Wide World Publishing; April 2, 2024).Joined at the heart by a love for travel and adventure, Scott and Tarantino provide witty commentary as they circumnavigate the globe in a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part good, old fashioned, action story. These married travelers spanned the globe for 25 years and discovered that travel is more than anticipating and planning the journey, reaching the destination, or seeing the sights. It's about the people you meet along the way. Within these pages are the incredible individuals they found—the towering legends who truly lived.Complete with original, hand-drawn maps and more than 150 images, LOOKING FOR LEGENDS takes you to places that exceed your wildest dreams. Trek through the Empty Quarter with Wilfred Thesiger. Dance the tango with Ricardo Guiraldes. Unlock the secrets of the Rosetta Stone with Jean-François Champollion. Discover an invisible country across the top of the world with Knud Rasmussen. Find the 15th Eight-Thousander with Reinhold Messner. Live through hell with Anna Akhmatova. Hunt a man-eating tiger with Jim Corbett. Ingest the Plants of the Gods with Richard Evans Schultes. And many more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-unplugged-totally-uncut--994165/support.

Not since the classic 1,000 Places to See Before You Die has there been such a call to adventure. Whether you're an armchair traveler, an occasional tourist, a seasoned globe-trotter, a daring adventurer, or an intrepid explorer, there's something for you in LOOKING FOR LEGENDS: Let Us Take You Somewhere You've Never Been Before, and Introduce You to Our Friends (Whole Wide World Publishing; April 2, 2024).Joined at the heart by a love for travel and adventure, Scott and Tarantino provide witty commentary as they circumnavigate the globe in a book that is part travelogue, part history, and part good, old fashioned, action story. These married travelers spanned the globe for 25 years and discovered that travel is more than anticipating and planning the journey, reaching the destination, or seeing the sights. It's about the people you meet along the way. Within these pages are the incredible individuals they found—the towering legends who truly lived.Complete with original, hand-drawn maps and more than 150 images, LOOKING FOR LEGENDS takes you to places that exceed your wildest dreams. Trek through the Empty Quarter with Wilfred Thesiger. Dance the tango with Ricardo Guiraldes. Unlock the secrets of the Rosetta Stone with Jean-François Champollion. Discover an invisible country across the top of the world with Knud Rasmussen. Find the 15th Eight-Thousander with Reinhold Messner. Live through hell with Anna Akhmatova. Hunt a man-eating tiger with Jim Corbett. Ingest the Plants of the Gods with Richard Evans Schultes. And many more.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/arroe-collins-like-it-s-live--4113802/support.

durée : 00:46:10 - Grand Canal - par : Eva Bester - Traducteur, poète et éditeur, le spécialiste de Dostoïevski et Tchekhov évoque les grandes figures de la résistance poétique russe, à l'occasion d'une lecture à La Scala de Paris, où il nous fait découvrir les voix dissidentes d'Alexandre Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Ossip Mandelstam, Kari Unksova. - invités : André Markowicz - André Markowicz : Poète, traducteur - réalisé par : Lola COSTANTINI

La chanteuse âgée de 31 ans, nommée pour son titre « Douce » aux Victoires de la musique qui ont lieu le 9 février, nous reçoit chez elle à Paris, dans le 10e arrondissement, non loin du Canal Saint-Martin. Clara Ysé évoque son enfance à Paris auprès d'un père peintre et de sa mère, la psychanalyste et écrivaine Anne Dufourmantelle. Elle se souvient des musiques qui ont bercé cette période, de Lhasa à Manu Chao en passant par Alain Souchon. Mais c'est par des cours de chant lyrique avec Yva Barthélémy qu'elle s'initie très jeune à la pratique. Extrêmement timide, elle apprend à s'exprimer par son art et s'ouvre aux autres à l'occasion de longs voyages en solitaire. Elle y développe un amour des musiques traditionnelles qui nourrit ses premiers titres puis son premier album « Oceano Nox ». Elle parle de son rapport complexe à la douceur, à la grâce et à la poésie, elle qui a déjà publié un roman « Mise à feu ».Elle revient, enfin, sur son admiration pour la philosophe Cynthia Fleury, les auteurs Lola Lafon et Antoine Wauters, la chanteuse Barbara, les poétesses Marina Tsvetaïeva et Anna Akhmatova ou encore pour la peintre Frida Kahlo. « J'ai une photo d'elle chez moi. Elle fait partie des artistes qui m'ont pas mal inspirée. Déjà, j'adore ses œuvres, je les trouve magnifiques. Puis pour moi, c'est une figure très puissante de quelqu'un qui a eu un rapport très réel à une forme de résilience, même si je me méfie de ce mot. Elle a su réinventer un univers plus fort que celui qui a été détruit. »Depuis cinq saisons, la journaliste et productrice Géraldine Sarratia interroge la construction et les méandres du goût d'une personnalité. Qu'ils ou elles soient créateurs, artistes, cuisiniers ou intellectuels, tous convoquent leurs souvenirs d'enfance, tous évoquent la dimension sociale et culturelle de la construction d'un corpus de goûts, d'un ensemble de valeurs.Un podcast produit et présenté par Géraldine Sarratia (Genre idéal) préparé avec l'aide de Diane Lisarelli et Johanna SebanRéalisation : Emmanuel BauxMusique : Gotan Project

durée : 00:29:14 - Poésie et ainsi de suite - par : Manou Farine - "Je n'ai pas réussi à être spectatrice" écrivait Anna Akhmatova. Elles sont quinze, parmi lesquelles Marina Tsvetaïeva, Ingeborg Bachmann, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton... quinze poétesses qui ont traversé l'histoire et été traversées par elle. Cécile A. Holdban leur prête sa voix.

Max Pearson presents a collection of this week's Witness History episodes from the BBC World Service. Our guest is Dr Ongama Mtimka, lecturer in South African politics at the Nelson Mandela University. He tells us about Mandela's life and legacy 10 years on from his death. We start with with Mandela's daughter, Makaziwe, describing her relationship with her father and planning his funeral. Then, the brother of Emanuela Orlandi describes his lifelong mission to unravel the mystery of her disappearance in Rome in 1983.The second half of the programme has a Russian flavour. A relative of Tsar Nicholas II describes the murder of the Romanov royal family in 1918. Then a Russian journalist describes attending the Romanov's controversial reburial 80 years later. We finish with one of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova. Contributors: Dr Ongama Mtimka - Lecturer in South African politics at the Nelson Mandela University. Dr Phumla Makaziwe Mandela - Nelson Mandela's daughter. Pietro Orlandi - Emanuela Orlandi's brother. Olga Romanov - Great niece of Tsar Nicholas II. Lilia Dubovaya - Journalist who was at the reburial of the Romanovs. Era Korobova - Art historian and expert on Anna Akhmatova.(Photo: Nelson Mandela. Credit: Tom Stoddart Archive/Getty Images)

Russian poet Akhmatova's poem portrays a skeptical and experienced view of falling in love. I made a new English translation of this last summer, but its cold winter view of love convinced me to put off arranging a song-version of it until December. For more than 700 other combinations of various words (mostly literary poetry) with music in various styles, visit our blog and archives at frankhudson.org

The great Russian poet Anna Akhmatova lived through some of the darkest chapters of Soviet history, but never stopped writing even though the communist regime repeatedly tried to silence her.One of Anna's most famous poems, Requiem, is about her son's arrest and the Stalinist terror.In 2022, art historian Era Korobova told Tatyana Movshevich about the poet's tumultuous relationship with her son.(Photo: Anna Akhmatova, centre right, at a Soviet writers' conference in 1965. Credit: Getty Images)

durée : 00:48:49 - Grand Canal - par : Eva Bester - Traducteur, poète et éditeur, le spécialiste de Dostoïevski et Tchekhov évoque les grandes figures de la résistance poétique russe, à l'occasion d'une lecture à La Scala de Paris, où il nous fait découvrir les voix dissidentes d'Alexandre Blok, Anna Akhmatova, Ossip Mandelstam, Kari Unksova.

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The war in Ukraine may seem distant -- but it affects us all in a million unseen ways. Ajay Shah joins Amit Varma in episode 335 of The Seen and the Unseen to deliver an in-depth masterclass on exactly what is going on. (FOR FULL LINKED SHOW NOTES, GO TO SEENUNSEEN.IN.) Also check out: 1. Ajay Shah on Twitter and Substack. 2. Episodes of The Seen and the Unseen with Ajay Shah: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. 3. In Service of the Republic — Vijay Kelkar and Ajay Shah. 4. Rising to the China Challenge -- Gautam Bambawale, Vijay Kelkar, Raghunath Mashelkar, Ganesh Natarajan, Ajit Ranade and Ajay Shah. 5. Russia, Ukraine, Foreign Policy — Episode 268 of The Seen and the Unseen (w Pranay Kotasthane and Nitin Pai). 6. Conflict in Ukraine: A timeline (2014 - present) -- Nigel Walker for House of Commons Library. 7. RUSI's commentary on Ukraine. 8. Rand Corporation's archive on the war. 9. Understanding the Russo-Ukranian War: A Guide From War on the Rocks. 10. Foreign Affairs articles on Ukraine, Russia and China. 11. Maps that update every day from Deep State and War Mapper. 12. YouTubers to follow on this subject: Perun, Timothy Snyder, Anders Puck Nielsen, The Telegraph, Silicon Curtain and William Spaniel. 13. Wind and solar power generated more electricity in the EU last year than gas did. Here's how -- Stefan Ellerbeck. 14. Economic stress in Russia -- Ajay Shah. 15. More ammo: Improving resilience against extreme surges in demand -- Ajay Shah. 16. Downstream from the Ukraine war -- Gautam Bambawale and Ajay Shah. 17. Bloodlands -- Timothy Snyder. 18. Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine -- Anne Applebaum. 19. Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe 1944-56 -- Anne Applebaum. 20. On Tyranny -- Timothy Snyder. 21. What is Populism? -- Jan-Werner Müller. 22. Tyranny in the Post-Truth Universe (2017) -- Amit Varma. 23. Why Both Modi and Trump are Textbook Populists (2017) -- Amit Varma. 24. The End of History? — Francis Fukuyama's essay. 25. The End of History and the Last Man — Francis Fukuyama's book. 26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. 27. Arthur Koestler and Boris Pasternak on Amazon. 28. Annual Address to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2005) -- Vladimir Putin. 29. Requiem -- Anna Akhmatova. 30. Russian court orders closure of country's oldest human rights group -- Andrew Roth on the ban of Memorial. 31. The Resource Curse. 32. Leo Tolstoy, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Vasily Grossman. 33. Dersu Uzala -- Akira Kurosawa. 34. Servant of the People -- The show in which Volodymyr Zelenskyy starts as the president of Ukraine. 35. Volodymyr Zelenskyy plays the piano with his penis. 36. How Corruption Destroys Armies - Theft, Graft, and Russian failure in Ukraine -- Perun. 37. An excerpt from Wittgenstein's diary -- Parul Sehgal on Twitter. 38. Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus -- Ludwig Wittgenstein. 39. The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M Christensen. 40. National Security Strategy of Japan. 41. Suspicious deaths of Russian businesspeople (2022–2023). 42. ‘Stop the war.' 44 Top Russian Players Publish Open Letter To Putin — Sam Copeland. 43. Alexander Grischuk's emotional press conference after Russia invaded Ukraine. (Watch from 4:20.) 44. India must detach from Russia -- Renuka Sane. 45. Helping India Replace Russia in the Value Arms Market -- Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach. 46. After Ukraine, Where Will India Buy its Weapons? --  Vasabjit Banerjee and Benjamin Tkach. 47. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- Ernest Hemingway. 48. For Whom the Bell Tolls -- John Donne. 49. Night of the Long Knives. 50. Anton Geraschenko's tweet after the Wagner backdown. 51. Mad Max: Fury Road — George Miller. 52. Max Seddon's tweet about Yevgeny Prigozhin. Check out Amit's online course, The Art of Clear Writing. And subscribe to The India Uncut Newsletter. It's free! Episode art: ‘War' by Simahina.

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durée : 00:25:00 - Les Nuits de France Culture - par : Albane Penaranda - En 1968, "Les coulisses du théâtre" proposait une émission sur la poésie russe et soviétique, avec des lectures par des comédiens de la compagnie Renaud Barrault. Au programme : Pasternak, Essenine, Akhmatova, Tchoukovski, etc. L'émission "Les coulisses du théâtre de France" présentée par Jean-Louis Barrault se consacrait en mars 1968 à la poésie russe et à la poésie soviétique. Des poèmes de Sergueï Aleksandrovitch Essenine, Boris Pasternak,  Anna Akhmatova,  Ilya Ehrenbourg, Kornei Tchoukovski et Evgueni Alexandrovitch Evtouchenko, étaient lus par des comédiens de la Compagnie Renaud Barrault (Gabriel Cattand, Jean Desailly, Madeleine Renaud, Michel Bertay). Les poèmes ont été choisis dans l'ouvrage La Poésie russe : Edition bilingue. Anthologie réunie et publiée sous la direction de Elsa Triolet, publié en 1965 chez Seghers. * Production : Simone Benmussa et Harold Portnoy  Présentation : Jean-Louis Barrault Les   coulisses du théâtre de France - La poésie russe (1ère diffusion :   26/03/1968) Indexation web : Sandrine England, Documentation de Radio France Archive INA-Radio France

Irina Mashinski is a bilingual Russophone American writer, poet, essayist, teacher, and translator, whose works include Giornata and eleven books of poetry and essays in Russian. She is also the co-editor of The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry. In this episode, Irina talks with Jacke about her childhood in the Soviet Union, her journey to becoming a poet living in America, and her new book The Naked World, which mixes poems and prose accounts to tell the story of four generations of a family living through Stalin's Great Terror, the Thaw of the Sixties, and the post-Thaw Seventies. SPECIAL NOTE: Irina would like to express her gratitude to the editors and translators who helped with The Naked World, and to whom she is very grateful. Additional listening suggestions: 130 The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani Keeping Secrets! Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago, and the CIA (with Lara Prescott) 458 Alexander Pushkin (with Robert Chandler) Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/donate. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded by Academy of American Poets staff for Poem-a-Day, a series produced by the Academy of American Poets. Published on March 12, 2023. www.poets.org

Today, we discuss the life of one of Russia's greatest poets, Anna Akhmatova. Join us as we tell her life's story as well as sharing some of her incredible writings.FRANK HORROR Presents: THE HORROR ANALYSISFRANK HORROR features both horror fiction and talk-format showsListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021) takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century. Michael Ignatieff is the former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University. He is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021) takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century. Michael Ignatieff is the former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University. He is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of lapidary meditations on writers, artists, musicians, and their works—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—esteemed writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times (Metropolitan Books, 2021) takes those stories into the present, movingly contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of our precarious twenty-first century. Michael Ignatieff is the former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University. He is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna. Caleb Zakarin is the Assistant Editor of the New Books Network (Twitter: @caleb_zakarin). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Today on Boston Public Radio: Attorney General Maura Healey shares her thoughts on the outcomes of the recent state legislature session, and took listener calls and answered questions on another installment of “Ask the AG.” Howard Bryant discusses the life and legacy of Bill Russell, including the impact of his presence in Boston and his role as a social justice advocate during the Civil Rights movement. Bryant is a columnist and commentator for ESPN. Then, we ask listeners about their memories of Bill Russell. Katie Krall talks about her experience being a female coach in the MLB, the unorthodox career path that led her to work in baseball, and the culture around women's sports today. Krall is a player development coach for the Portland Sea Dogs, a Boston Red Sox affiliate team. Revs. Irene Monroe and Emmett Price discuss the Kansas nuns opposing a state abortion amendment, the Pope Francis' recent ‘apology tour' in Canada, and Beyonce's new album. Monroe is a syndicated religion columnist and the Boston voice for Detour's African American Heritage Trail. Price is founding pastor of Community of Love Christian Fellowship in Allston and the Inaugural Dean of Africana Studies at Berklee College of Music. Together, they host GBH's All Rev'd Up podcast. Richard Blanco reads poems about the chaos in our country right now, including “Fire and Ice” by Robert Frost, Anna Akhmatova's “Lot's Wife,” and his own “And So We All Fall Down”. Blanco is the fifth inaugural poet in United States history. His latest book, "How To Love A Country," deals with various sociopolitical issues that shadow America. We end the show by talking about recent legislation in the statehouse.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (also Marina Cvetaeva and Marina Tsvetayeva) was born in Moscow. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia. Tsvetaeva's life coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She married Sergei Efron in 1912; they had two daughters and later one son. Efron joined the White Army, and Tsvetaeva was separated from him during the Civil War. She had a brief love affair with Osip Mandelstam, and a longer relationship with Sofia Parnok. During the Moscow famine, Tsvetaeva was forced to place her daughters in a state orphanage, where the younger, Irina, died of hunger in 1919. In 1922 she emigrated with her family to Berlin, then to Prague, settling in Paris in 1925. In Paris, the family lived in poverty. Sergei Efron worked for the Soviet secret police, and Tsvetaeva was shunned by the Russian expatriate community of Paris. Through the years of privation and exile, poetry and contact with poets sustained Tsvetaeva. She corresponded with Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak, and she dedicated work to Anna Akhmatova.In 1939 Tsvetaeva returned to the Soviet Union. Efron was executed, and her surviving daughter was sent to a labor camp. When the German army invaded the USSR, Tsvetaeva was evacuated to Yelabuga with her son. She hanged herself on August 31, 1941.Critics and translators of Tsvetaeva's work often comment on the passion in her poems, their swift shifts and unusual syntax, and the influence of folk songs. She is also known for her portrayal of a woman's experiences during the “terrible years” (as the period in Russian history was described by Aleksandr Blok). Collections of Tsvetaeva's poetry translated into English include Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein (1971, 1994). She is the subject of several biographies as well as the collected memoirs No Love Without Poetry (2009), by her daughter Ariadna Efron (1912–1975).From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marina-tsvetaeva. For more information about Marina Tsvetaeva:“A kiss on the forehead”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/55422/a-kiss-on-the-forehead“Translator's Notes: Eight Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/145547/translator39s-note-ldquoan-attempt-at-jealousyrdquo-by-marina-tsvetaevaDark Elderberry Branch: Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva: https://www.alicejamesbooks.org/bookstore/dark-elderberry-branch

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (also Marina Cvetaeva and Marina Tsvetayeva) was born in Moscow. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia. Tsvetaeva's life coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She married Sergei Efron in 1912; they had two daughters and later one son. Efron joined the White Army, and Tsvetaeva was separated from him during the Civil War. She had a brief love affair with Osip Mandelstam, and a longer relationship with Sofia Parnok. During the Moscow famine, Tsvetaeva was forced to place her daughters in a state orphanage, where the younger, Irina, died of hunger in 1919. In 1922 she emigrated with her family to Berlin, then to Prague, settling in Paris in 1925. In Paris, the family lived in poverty. Sergei Efron worked for the Soviet secret police, and Tsvetaeva was shunned by the Russian expatriate community of Paris. Through the years of privation and exile, poetry and contact with poets sustained Tsvetaeva. She corresponded with Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak, and she dedicated work to Anna Akhmatova.In 1939 Tsvetaeva returned to the Soviet Union. Efron was executed, and her surviving daughter was sent to a labor camp. When the German army invaded the USSR, Tsvetaeva was evacuated to Yelabuga with her son. She hanged herself on August 31, 1941.Critics and translators of Tsvetaeva's work often comment on the passion in her poems, their swift shifts and unusual syntax, and the influence of folk songs. She is also known for her portrayal of a woman's experiences during the “terrible years” (as the period in Russian history was described by Aleksandr Blok). Collections of Tsvetaeva's poetry translated into English include Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein (1971, 1994). She is the subject of several biographies as well as the collected memoirs No Love Without Poetry (2009), by her daughter Ariadna Efron (1912–1975).From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marina-tsvetaeva. For more information about Marina Tsvetaeva:“No One Has Taken Anything Away”: https://ruverses.com/marina-tsvetaeva/nothing-s-been-taken-away/9732/Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems: https://www.carcanet.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9781847770608“Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life”: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/02/13/tsvetaeva-the-tragic-life/

I read the poem Requiem by Anna Akhmatova' on a previous podcast. Several things made this poem happen. WHile Akhmatova lived through Stalin's times, many of the people who persecuted her are now forgotten, they are just ‘footnotes in her history'. I used her poem as part of a unit on poetry in translation. I would tell the story of how, when it was being written, she would write the new verses on cigarette paper. She would show them silently to her friend, who would nod when she had memorised the lines, then they would burn the paper. Classes often found this most moving part of her story. But at the end of every lesson, there'd be at least one of the printed copies of the poem left in the classroom, often dropped on the floor. Once one of the papers had a foot print on it. The poem first appeared in the Irish Journal , The SHOp, and was then chosen for ‘The SHOp, An Anthology of Poetry', their ‘best of' collection.

As a devout and passionate religious observer, Victorian poet Christina Rossetti (1830-1894) lived a life that might seem, at first glance, as proper and tame. Even some of her greatest works, devotional poems and verses for children, strike us as just the kind of art a fine upstanding moralist might generate. But there was more to Christina Rossetti than that - and in fact, she produced some of the most passionate and idiosyncratic poems of her era. In this episode, Jacke takes a look at her long narrative poem Goblin Market (1859-1862), about two sisters seduced by the fruits being sold by a pack of river goblins, which is one of the most sensationally bizarre poems Jacke has ever read. Additional listening suggestions: 95 The Runaway Poets - The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning 130 The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani 382 Forbidden Victorian Love (with Mimi Matthews) Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Anna Akhmatova 1869-1966 ‘Requiem' is Akhmatova's memorial for those who waited with her outside the prison in Saint Petersburg in the 1930s, hoping for news of their loved ones during ‘the terrible years of the Yezhov Terror'. The context of the poem is explained properly in the second section, a prose ‘By way of a preface'. Some sections have titles, others numbers. This translation, by Stanley Kunitz with Max Hayward is taken from ‘Twentieth century Russian Poetry; Silver and steel, An anthology'. Selected and Introduced by Yevgeny Yevthushenko, edited by Albert. C. Todd and Max Hayward. ( Doubleday 1993)

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Anna Akhmatova, orig. Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, (born June 23, 1889, Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine, Russian Empire—died March 5, 1966, Domodedovo, near Moscow) was a Russian poet. She won fame with her first poetry collections (1912, 1914). Soon after the Revolution of 1917, Soviet authorities condemned her work for what they perceived as its narrow preoccupation with love and God, and in 1923, after the execution of her former husband on conspiracy charges, she entered a long period of literary silence. After World War II she was again denounced and expelled from the Writers Union. Following Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, she was slowly rehabilitated. In her later years she became the influential center of a circle of younger Russian poets. Her longest work, Poem Without a Hero, is regarded as one of the great poems of the 20th century. Regarded today as one of the greatest of all Russian poets, she is also admired for her translations of other poets' works and for her memoirs.From https://www.britannica.com/summary/Anna-Akhmatova. For more information about Anna Akhmatova:“Anna Akhmatova”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova“You Will Hear Thunder”: https://allpoetry.com/you-will-hear-thunder“The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova”: https://www.zephyrpress.org/product-page/the-complete-poems-of-anna-akhmatova-by-anna-akhmatova

Work, girl! And we give love to our power bottom brethren.Read Emily Dickinson's Poem 260.  You can listen to it read by Yina Liang, courtesy of the Favorite Poem Project here (~5 min). Read (or listen) to Richard Blanco's poem "We're Not Going to Malta" here. Watch Larry Levis read with Phil Levine (~76 minutes; Levis is first). Aaron is right, Levis has a lovely, crisp, deep man-voice.Read Jane Kenyon's "Having it Out with Melancholy" here. Hear her read "Otherwise" here (video is of her and Donald Hall, walking with their dog). There's an incredible musical response to Jane Kenyon's "Having it Out with Melancholy" that I could not recommend more. Watch/listen here. Composed by Jonathan McNair and performed by The Unheard-of//Ensemble (~22 minutes). Otherwise is Kenyon's New and Selected Poems. The Collected Poems assembles Kenyon's four previous volumes, plus her posthumous volumes, her translations of Anna Akhmatova, and then four poems never before published in book form. The book Aaron mentions is A Hundred White Daffodils: Essays, Interviews, The Akhmatova Translations, Newspaper Columns, and One Poem.Read Nazim Hikmet's poem "On Living" here.Auden did write a blowjob poem, apparently known by several different titles: "A Day for a Lay," aka “The Platonic Blow, by Miss Oral,” aka “The Gobble Poem,” and you can read about it here.James's favorite Steve Orlen poem is "In the House of the Voice of Maria Callas," which you can read online here.

Ultimately, the marital relationship of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes was filled with pain and ended in tragedy. At the outset, however, things were very different. Within months of their first meeting at Cambridge, they had fallen in love, gotten married, and started having children - all while writing poetry and supporting one another's art. What did they see in each other as people and as poets? How did they inspire and encourage one another? In this episode, Jacke talks to Plath's biographer Heather Clark, author of Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath, about the creative partnership of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Additional listening: Episode 198 - Sylvia Plath Episode 130 - The Poet and the Painter - The Great Love Affair of Anna Akhmatova and Amedeo Modigliani Episode 95 - The Runaway Poets - The Triumphant Love Story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Robert Browning Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. The History of Literature Podcast is a member of Lit Hub Radio and the Podglomerate Network. Learn more at www.thepodglomerate.com/historyofliterature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate International Women's Day, a special edition on five women who've made their mark on history. US feminist Gloria Steinem remembers founding Ms Magazine in 1972; Iranian lawyer Shirin Ebadi discusses the human rights campaigning which won her the Nobel Peace Prize; and a friend of Anna Akhmatova remembers the great Russian poet. Plus, a leading Italian feminist on the international movement in the 1970s which demanded women get paid for housework; and the Australian women who helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War. Picture: Gloria Steinem, centre, at the offices of Ms Magazine in New York circa 1974 (Credit: PL Gould/IMAGES/Getty Images)

  Join me and Michael Ignatieff as we discuss his new book, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times. On Consolation offers a two thousand year look at how humankind struggled with and endeavored to find consolation in its darkest hours. In a series of essays from the books of Job and Psalms through Dante and Albert Camus concluding with Dr. Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement, Professor Ignatieff elaborates on how men and women in extremity sought to recover hope and resilience. Professor Ignatieff, the author of nearly 20 books including a Booker award finalist, is the former head of Canada's Liberal Party, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, and President of Central European University in Vienna, Austria where currently he is a professor. Guest Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior's Honor, as well as over fifteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album, and the Booker finalist novel Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. Former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University, he is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna. On Consolation When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of portraits of writers, artists and musicians searching for consolation—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of the twenty-first century. Host Michael Zeldin Michael Zeldin is a well-known and highly-regarded TV and radio analyst/commentator. He has covered many high-profile matters, including the Clinton impeachment proceedings, the Gore v. Bush court challenges, Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation of interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump impeachment proceedings. In 2019, Michael was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught a study group on Independent Investigations of Presidents. Previously, Michael was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as Deputy Independent/ Independent Counsel, investigating allegations of tampering with presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files, and as Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, October Surprise Task Force, investigating the handling of the American hostage situation in Iran. Michael is a prolific writer and has published Op-ed pieces for CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Times, and The Washington Post.

  Join me and Michael Ignatieff as we discuss his new book, On Consolation: Finding Solace in Dark Times. On Consolation offers a two thousand year look at how humankind struggled with and endeavored to find consolation in its darkest hours. In a series of essays from the books of Job and Psalms through Dante and Albert Camus concluding with Dr. Cicely Saunders, the founder of the modern hospice movement, Professor Ignatieff elaborates on how men and women in extremity sought to recover hope and resilience. Professor Ignatieff, the author of nearly 20 books including a Booker award finalist, is the former head of Canada's Liberal Party, Director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at the Harvard Kennedy School, and President of Central European University in Vienna, Austria where currently he is a professor. Guest Michael Ignatieff Michael Ignatieff is the author of Isaiah Berlin and The Warrior's Honor, as well as over fifteen other acclaimed books, including a memoir, The Russian Album, and the Booker finalist novel Scar Tissue. He writes regularly for the New York Times, the New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. Former head of Canada's Liberal Party, director of the Carr Center for Human Rights at Harvard's Kennedy School, and president of Central European University, he is currently a professor at CEU in Vienna. On Consolation When we lose someone we love, when we suffer loss or defeat, when catastrophe strikes—war, famine, pandemic—we go in search of consolation. Once the province of priests and philosophers, the language of consolation has largely vanished from our modern vocabulary, and the places where it was offered, houses of religion, are often empty. Rejecting the solace of ancient religious texts, humanity since the sixteenth century has increasingly placed its faith in science, ideology, and the therapeutic. How do we console each other and ourselves in an age of unbelief? In a series of portraits of writers, artists and musicians searching for consolation—from the books of Job and Psalms to Albert Camus, Anna Akhmatova, and Primo Levi—writer and historian Michael Ignatieff shows how men and women in extremity have looked to each other across time to recover hope and resilience. Recreating the moments when great figures found the courage to confront their fate and the determination to continue unafraid, On Consolation takes those stories into the present, contending that we can revive these traditions of consolation to meet the anguish and uncertainties of the twenty-first century. Host Michael Zeldin Michael Zeldin is a well-known and highly-regarded TV and radio analyst/commentator. He has covered many high-profile matters, including the Clinton impeachment proceedings, the Gore v. Bush court challenges, Special Counsel Robert Muller's investigation of interference in the 2016 presidential election, and the Trump impeachment proceedings. In 2019, Michael was a Resident Fellow at the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he taught a study group on Independent Investigations of Presidents. Previously, Michael was a federal prosecutor with the U.S. Department of Justice. He also served as Deputy Independent/ Independent Counsel, investigating allegations of tampering with presidential candidate Bill Clinton's passport files, and as Deputy Chief Counsel to the U.S. House of Representatives, Foreign Affairs Committee, October Surprise Task Force, investigating the handling of the American hostage situation in Iran. Michael is a prolific writer and has published Op-ed pieces for CNN.com, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Hill, The Washington Times, and The Washington Post.

Subscribe to Quotomania on Simplecast or search for Quotomania on your favorite podcast app!Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (also Marina Cvetaeva and Marina Tsvetayeva) was born in Moscow. During her lifetime she wrote poems, verse plays, and prose pieces; she is considered one of the most renowned poets of 20th-century Russia. Tsvetaeva's life coincided with turbulent years in Russian history. She married Sergei Efron in 1912; they had two daughters and later one son. Efron joined the White Army, and Tsvetaeva was separated from him during the Civil War. She had a brief love affair with Osip Mandelstam, and a longer relationship with Sofia Parnok. During the Moscow famine, Tsvetaeva was forced to place her daughters in a state orphanage, where the younger, Irina, died of hunger in 1919. In 1922 she emigrated with her family to Berlin, then to Prague, settling in Paris in 1925. In Paris, the family lived in poverty. Sergei Efron worked for the Soviet secret police, and Tsvetaeva was shunned by the Russian expatriate community of Paris. Through the years of privation and exile, poetry and contact with poets sustained Tsvetaeva. She corresponded with Rainer Maria Rilke and Boris Pasternak, and she dedicated work to Anna Akhmatova.In 1939 Tsvetaeva returned to the Soviet Union. Efron was executed, and her surviving daughter was sent to a labor camp. When the German army invaded the USSR, Tsvetaeva was evacuated to Yelabuga with her son. She hanged herself on August 31, 1941.Critics and translators of Tsvetaeva's work often comment on the passion in her poems, their swift shifts and unusual syntax, and the influence of folk songs. She is also known for her portrayal of a woman's experiences during the “terrible years” (as the period in Russian history was described by Aleksandr Blok). Collections of Tsvetaeva's poetry translated into English include Selected Poems of Marina Tsvetaeva, translated by Elaine Feinstein (1971, 1994). She is the subject of several biographies as well as the collected memoirs No Love Without Poetry (2009), by her daughter Ariadna Efron (1912–1975).From https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marina-tsvetaeva. For more information about Marina Tsvetaeva:“Translator's Note: Eight Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva”: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/articles/145547/translator39s-note-ldquoan-attempt-at-jealousyrdquo-by-marina-tsvetaeva“Tsvetaeva: The Tragic Life”: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2003/02/13/tsvetaeva-the-tragic-life/

durée : 00:54:35 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Geneviève Brisac - A partir de 1912, tout va très vite, dans la vie d'Anna Akhmatova. Elle découvre la vie de femme mariée, écrit des poèmes mélancoliques, connaît la gloire et les chagrins d'amour. Puis survient la révolution, c'est pour les poètes une énergie nouvelle et bientôt, le désenchantement.

durée : 00:52:20 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Geneviève Brisac - Avec la signature du pacte germano-soviétique, l'année 1939 frappe la Russie, alors URSS, d'un nouveau trauma. S'ensuivent des années douloureuses pour Anna Akhmatova prise dans les secousses du stalinisme, de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, de la guerre froide... et de ses révolutions intérieures.

durée : 00:59:44 - Les Grandes Traversées - par : Geneviève Brisac - La fin de la guerre en 1945 ne signe pas pour autant la fin du stalinisme. Le monde reste en tension et la Russie prisonnière d'elle-même. Anna Akhmatova retrouve son fils Liova et des visages amis : dans une atmosphère de traque des intellectuels, c'est le temps des retrouvailles en forme d'adieux.