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Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social |
In another life, I was a student of Silver Age Russian poetry, and loved no one more than Osip (and Nadezda) Mandelstam. It ended terribly for him. But his poetry outlasted the dictators.
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Adina M. Yoffie
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I mean, yes, that is a fair way of looking at it. And also I’d prefer we don’t even start w/dictators here, and I assume you agree.
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Eric Koski
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“Even now stanzas rose easily, one after the other, and although he hadn’t written down any for a long time, and couldn’t write down his verse, the words still came without effort in a rhythm that was predetermined and, on every occasion, unusual.”
"Cherry Brandy", Varlam Shalamov, bit.ly/4cT2N75
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