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Russian Twentieth-Century Poetry

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The End of a Long Poem, a Cloud in Trousers

James woma's translations are the first ones that were actually, james and stevens translations. He's often seen as a kind of revolutionary loud mouth, but he is much more varied than that. A poet capable of great delicacy and tenderness and an intelligenceA so james, this is the end of a a long poem, a cloud in trousers. I may be right or wrong, but i can't sett down. Look, they've got blood all over the sky, and they've beheaded the stars again. Can't you see i'm coming? Needs to wash out its ears. The universe is asleep. And one huge ear, covered in stars like fle

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