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Amongst students in Moscow , for example , typed copies of poems were always
circulating . ... You would only know who had written a particular poem when the
person giving it to you said under his breath : “ This is Marina Tsvetaeva .
Amongst students in Moscow , for example , typed copies of poems were always
circulating . ... You would only know who had written a particular poem when the
person giving it to you said under his breath : “ This is Marina Tsvetaeva .
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At this point it is only fair to remind the reader of the line from Yevtushenko ' s
poem about “ the tanks . . . rumbling across ... What happened was that one of
Russia ' s most gifted poets , Oleg Chukhontsev , wrote a poem about Prince
Kurbsky ...
At this point it is only fair to remind the reader of the line from Yevtushenko ' s
poem about “ the tanks . . . rumbling across ... What happened was that one of
Russia ' s most gifted poets , Oleg Chukhontsev , wrote a poem about Prince
Kurbsky ...
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His poem “ Kaddish , ” dedicated to the heroic Polish teacher Janosz Korczak , is
a poetic chef d ' oeuvre which he read out with the courage born of desperation in
Moscow in 1970 , the year of the hijack trial in Leningrad : I cry out to you ...
His poem “ Kaddish , ” dedicated to the heroic Polish teacher Janosz Korczak , is
a poetic chef d ' oeuvre which he read out with the courage born of desperation in
Moscow in 1970 , the year of the hijack trial in Leningrad : I cry out to you ...
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Contents
D000 CHERRYPLUM BLOOMS IN TBILISI | 69 |
Moscow 2 | 105 |
His Story Ones Own Opinion | 117 |
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