Poets & Traitors Press
My Only Crime
Richard Lourie
Poems, Translations, Lives, and Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem”
My Only Crime: Poems, Translations, Lives, and Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem” is the first book of poetry by Richard Lourie, author of The Autobiography Of Joseph Stalin, Zero Gravity, First Loyalty, A Hatred For Tulips, Sakharov: A Biography, Putin: His Downfall And Russia’s Coming Crash, Hunting The Devil, and Russia Speaks: An Oral History From The Revolution To The Present. It is the eighth book from Poets & Traitors Press.
- Publication
- October 16, 2024
- ISBN
- 9780999073773
- Price
- $16
Praise
“…the best narrative available on Sakharov’s life.”— Financial Times on Sakharov: A Life
“Lourie is located somewhere between James Bond and Heidegger…”— Saul Bellow on First Loyalty
“He writes well enough not only to make the heart pound but also to please the mind.”— The New Yorker on First Loyalty
About Richard Lourie
After being awarded the Sneath Poetry Prize by Robert Lowell in 1960, Richard Lourie published his first book of poems My Only Crime a prompt 64 years later. He had been waylaid by Russia. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, three of his grandparents and his father were born in the Russian empire. He went on to earn a Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures at Berkeley and to translate more than thirty books from Russian and Polish, including works by Czeslaw Milosz, Andrei Sakharov, Vladimir Voinovich, and Aleksander Wat. He has published eleven books of his own, including the novels The Autobiography Of Joseph Stalin, Zero Gravity, First Loyalty and A Hatred For Tulips, as well as Sakharov: A Biography, Putin: His Downfall And Russia’s Coming Crash, Hunting The Devil, and Russia Speaks: An Oral History From The Revolution To The Present.
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