
Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
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I'll Read Another Love Poem From the 19 Seventies, Very Late
In russiarina masinski, i will read the same poem in russian. It might be interesting to note thatat the time the poem was written, it was march 19 55 - two years after stalin's death and one year before the party congress with all the revelations. So a and the word thow, as robert points it out, is really important here. I'll read another love poem from the 19 seventies, very late. Words lying empty, without breathing, that don't know why they exist at all. But with an orphan's grief, go mute, not knowing they are mutilated. Antem.
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