Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry
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The River Lethe Side by Side, We Walk and Talk as Poets Did So Long Ago
Liaf orzrov is an honourable and moderately well known poet. He got zabalodski published for the first time after his return from the golag. And wrote good, but fairly conventional poetry throughout his life. But at the end of his life, he started working in the 19 nineties. His free verse poems were quite unlike anything in russian literature before them.
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