The Complete Poems of Anna Akhmatova

"Initially published in 1990, when the New York Times Book Review named it one of the fourteen "Best Books of the Year," this edition has sold over 20,000 copies, making it one of the most successful poetry titles of recent years. This reissued and revised printing features a new biographical essay as well as expanded notes to the poems, both by Roberta Reeder, project editor and author of Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet (St. Martin's Press, 1994). Encyclopedic in scope, with more than 800 poems, 100 photographs, a historical chronology, index of first lines, and bibliography." -- From publisher's website.