Judith hemschemeyer bio
Judith hemschemeyer bio and wife
Judith hemschemeyer bio and wife and kids.
By Leora Zeitlin
Towards the end of her life, Anna Akhmatova wrote:
What is lurking in the mirror? Grief.
What is stirring beyond the wall?
Calamity.
Having lived through the violent upheavals of the Russian Revolution, two World Wars, and the Stalinist terror, she had chronicled both her personal grief and calamities, and those of Russia, in more than 800 poems.
Judith hemschemeyer bio
Her early poems, often expressing anguished love, inspired a generation of Russians in the years before World War I. Later, refusing to leave the Soviet Union, she gave voice to the suffering of all of Russia.
Seventeen years after her death in 1966, a proposal to publish her complete poems arrived at the fledgling Zephyr Press in Somerville, Massachusetts.
Poet Judith Hemschemeyer had already spent a decade translating Akhmatova’s poems before her friend and colleague Susan Gubernat — one of five editors then at Zephyr — presented them to us. We were young and audacious