My Half-Century presents a large collection of the major prose works of the great twentieth century Russian poet, including -- Pages from a Diary, her brilliant shorter pieces About Pushkin, a number of reviews and public addresses including A Word About Dante, a long selection of letters (to Aleksander Blok, Nikolai Gumilyov, Osip and Nadezhda Mandelstam, Boris Pasternak, and many others up to Joseph Brodsky), with an afterword (Akmatova's Prose)...