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For the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord today. I bought this little book after visiting his home in Boston last summer.
For the 250th anniversary of Lexington and Concord today. I bought this little book after visiting his home in Boston last summer.
#NationalPoetryMonth #April #day18 #water
These poems were translated by Jane Kenyon with Vera Sandomirsky Dunham in 1985. They are included in her book, Collected Poems, which is how I was introduced to this Russian poet.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova
pickI included Toha‘s biography in this pic so people realize that when I say these poems are brutal, they get a sense of how brutal I mean.
It seems inappropriate to judge the overall style, or lack thereof, of this collection. These are not meant to simply be poems. They are documents. Rapid fire snapshots of war-torn lives.
These poems don‘t need to prove themselves; they only need to be.
