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Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky

Conversations with Tyler

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Brodsky's Poem on Ukraine

He was a Russian imperialist. He simply never gave it up, even after he came here. It's not just that poem you get into a fight with Derek Walcott at a famous conference when he was belittling the smaller nations of the world. There's a sort of national imperialism of Russia that is not just Putin that goes all the way down. I think that poem about the Ukraine is indeed very unfortunate and doesn't serve common sense well.

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