- “How might American singer-songwriter Iris DeMent and the "Soviet doyen of reverie and suffering" Anna Akhmatova come together? At Bookforum, David Biespiel reminds us that in DeMent's last album, The Trackless Woods, she set to music 18 of Akhmatova’s poems, translated by Lyn Coffin and Babette Deutsch, as a gift to her daughter, Dasha, adopted from Siberia in 2005.” Worth a listen.
- “How might American singer-songwriter Iris DeMent and the "Soviet doyen of reverie and suffering" Anna Akhmatova come together? At Bookforum, David Biespiel reminds us that in DeMent's last album, The Trackless Woods, she set to music 18 of Akhmatova’s poems, translated by Lyn Coffin and Babette Deutsch, as a gift to her daughter, Dasha, adopted from Siberia in 2005.” Worth a listen.
I love this album. Iris DeMent described the making of it as a profound experience. It seems to have taken her spiritually and artistically to a place she could not have gone without Akhmatova's poetry.
- “How might American singer-songwriter Iris DeMent and the "Soviet doyen of reverie and suffering" Anna Akhmatova come together? At Bookforum, David Biespiel reminds us that in DeMent's last album, The Trackless Woods, she set to music 18 of Akhmatova’s poems, translated by Lyn Coffin and Babette Deutsch, as a gift to her daughter, Dasha, adopted from Siberia in 2005.” Worth a listen.
I love this album. Iris DeMent described the making of it as a profound experience. It seems to have taken her spiritually and artistically to a place she could not have gone without Akhmatova's poetry.