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| Released | August 7, 2015 [1] | |||
| Genre | Country Folk | |||
| Label | Flariella [1] | |||
| Producer | Iris DeMent and Richard Bennett [1] | |||
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The Trackless Woods is the sixth album by country and folk singer, Iris DeMent. The lyrics are poems by Anna Akhmatova, as translated by Babette Deutsch and Lyn Coffin, set to compositions by DeMent. Richard Bennett and Leo Kottke accompany Iris DeMent who sings and plays piano. [2] [3] [4]
Osip Emilyevich Mandelstam was a Russian and Soviet poet. He was one of the foremost members of the Acmeist school.
Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, better known by the pen name Anna Akhmatova, was one of the most significant Russian poets of 20th century. She was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in 1965 and received second-most (three) nominations for the award the following year.
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky was a Jewish, Russian and American poet and essayist.
Maximilian Alexandrovich Kirienko-Voloshin, commonly known as Max Voloshin, was a Russian poet. He was one of the significant representatives of the symbolist movement in Russian culture and literature. He became famous as a poet and a critic of literature and the arts, being published in many contemporary magazines of the early 20th century, including Vesy, Zolotoye runo, and Apollon. He was known for his translations of a number of French poetic and prose works into Russian.
Iris Luella DeMent is an American two-time Grammy-nominated singer and songwriter. DeMent's musical style includes elements of folk, country and gospel.
Igor Severyanin was a Russian poet who presided over the circle of the so-called Ego-Futurists.
Nikolay Stepanovich Gumilyov was an influential Russian poet, literary critic, traveler, and military officer. He was a cofounder of the Acmeist movement. He was husband of Anna Akhmatova and father of Lev Gumilev. Nikolay Gumilyov was arrested and executed by the Cheka, the secret Soviet police force, in 1921.
Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov was a Russian poet and playwright associated with the Russian Symbolist movement. He was also a philosopher, translator, and literary critic.
Sergey Mitrofanovich Gorodetsky was a Russian poet, one of the founders of "Guild of Poets". He was born in Saint Petersburg, and died in Obninsk.
Georgy Vladimirovich Ivanov was a leading poet and essayist of the Russian emigration between the 1930s and 1950s.
— Opening lines from The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot, first published this year
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
Dubrovsky is an unfinished novel by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1832 and published after Pushkin's death in 1841. The name Dubrovsky was given by the editor.
Mikhail Leonidovich Lozinsky is deemed to be the most accomplished Russian translator of the 20th century. "In the difficult and noble art of translation," said Anna Akhmatova, "Lozinsky was for the twentieth century what Zhukovsky was for the nineteenth."
Nazik al-Malaika was an Iraqi poet Al-Malaika is noted for being among the first Arabic poet to use free verse.
Lyn Coffin is an American poet, writer, translator, and editor.
Semyon Izrailevich Lipkin was a Russian writer, poet, and literary translator.
Dmitry Vasilyevich Bobyshev is a Soviet poet, translator and literary critic.
Natalia Vasilyevna Krandievskaya was a Russian poet and memoirist. She published three books of poetry, a collection of poems devoted to the Siege of Leningrad, and a book of memoirs. Her second marriage was to the writer Alexey Tolstoy. The couple lived in exile together for several years after the Russian Revolution.
