| Author: | Victor Serge, Richard Greeman | ISBN: | 9781629633992 |
| Publisher: | Pm Press | Publication: | June 22, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Pm Press E Books | Language: | English |
| Author: | Victor Serge, Richard Greeman |
| ISBN: | 9781629633992 |
| Publisher: | Pm Press |
| Publication: | June 22, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Pm Press E Books |
| Language: | English |
Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the 'immense shipwreck' of Stalin's ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd, Orenburg, Paris, Marseille, the Caribbean and Mexico, Serge composed elegies for the fallen - as well as prospective elegies for the living who, like him, endured prison, exile, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century.
Like Serge's extraordinary novels, A Blaze in a Desert: Selected Poems bears witness to decades of revolutionary upheavals in Europe and the advent of totalitarian rule; many of the poems were written during the 'immense shipwreck' of Stalin's ascendancy. In poems datelined Petrograd, Orenburg, Paris, Marseille, the Caribbean and Mexico, Serge composed elegies for the fallen - as well as prospective elegies for the living who, like him, endured prison, exile, and bitter disappointment in the revolutions of the first half of the twentieth century.
