{"product_id":"kalandadze-ana-poems-leksebi-1957-in-georgian","title":"Kalandadze, Ana. Poems (Leksebi). 1957. In Georgian.","description":"\u003cp\u003eკალანდაძე, ანა (1924-2008). ლექსები \/ მბატვარი ი. ჯვანაშვილი.\u003cbr\u003eთბილისი : საბჭოთა მწერალი, 1957. 161, [6] გვერდი, 1 ფურცელი პორტრეტი ; 19 სმ.\u003cbr\u003eმაგარი ყდა. ტირაჟი 7 000 ც.\u003cbr\u003eყდა - დამაკმაყოფილებელი: მთელ სიბრტყეზე მნიშვნელოვანი სადღებლავი; ყველა კუთხე ძლიერ ცვეთილი, ყდის ფირფიტები ჩნდება; ზურგი ცვეთილი. ბლოკი - კარგი: ფურცლები სრული, ტექსტი ნათლად იკითხება, ფრონტისპისი (პორტრეტი) მთლიანი.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKalandadze, Ana (1924-2008). Poems \/ frontispiece portrait by I. Jvanashvili.\u003cbr\u003eTbilisi : Sabchota Mtskerali (Soviet Writer) Publishing House, 1957. 161, [6] pp. : 1 frontispiece portrait plate ; 19 cm.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Print run of 7,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding fair: significant scuffing and surface scratching throughout the cloth; all four corners heavily worn with boards showing through; spine rubbed. Text block good: leaves complete and fully legible, frontispiece portrait intact and clean.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAna Kalandadze (ანა კალანდაძე, 1924-2008) was one of the most celebrated lyric poets in Georgian literary history and one of the most influential female voices in twentieth-century Georgian culture. Born in the village of Khidistavi in the Gurian region of western Georgia, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology at Tbilisi State University in 1946, and her first published poems immediately attracted the attention of the Georgian literary establishment; an evening devoted to her work was organized in that same year by the Georgian Writers' Union at the initiative of the poet Simon Chikovani. Her intricate, melodious rhythms drew on the classical heritage of medieval Georgian lyric verse and on the Georgian folk tradition of Guria, while her subtle, reticent personal lyricism expressed a quiet stoicism that, in the words of Professor Donald Rayfield, was subtle enough not to arouse the antagonism of Soviet authority, even as it carried implied defiance of the ideological constraints of the era. The present volume, published in 1957 by Sabchota Mtskerali, is her second collected volume, following the celebrated first collection of 1953 whose censored form had nonetheless brought her immediate national acclaim. Of the six poetry volumes Kalandadze published in her lifetime (1953-1985), the collections of the 1950s represent her most concentrated early lyric output, preceding the wider popular success of the 1960s and 1970s. The frontispiece carries a portrait of the poet by I. Jvanashvili. Kalandadze was a laureate of the Shota Rustaveli State Prize and the Galaktioni Prize, and was buried at the Mtatsminda Pantheon in Tbilisi. Early Soviet-era poetry collections of the canonical figures of modern Georgian literature appear infrequently on the international antiquarian market and are actively sought by collectors of Georgian literary culture.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44320672317482,"sku":null,"price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_2756.jpg?v=1778057083","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/kalandadze-ana-poems-leksebi-1957-in-georgian","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}