This author wrote a poem whose narrator asks, "What do you want?" and receives the reply, "To be with you in Hell." This author of "The Guest" wrote a poem that ends by describing ice flowing "from my immovable bronze eyelids" and "the prison dove" cooing "in the distance." That poem by this author asks for prayers "if a gag should blind my tortured mouth, through which a hundred million people shout." This poet rose to fame with the collections Evening and The Rosary. This author is asked, "Can you describe this?" by a woman who then smiles "over what had once been her face" in a section titled "Instead of a Preface." A long poem by this Acmeist responds to the arrests of her husband, Nikolay Punin, and her son, Lev Gumilyov, during the Great Purge. For 10 points, name this Russian poet who wrote Poem Without a Hero and Requiem. ■END■
ANSWER: Anna Akhmatova [or Anna Andreyevna Gorenko]
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