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Ilya Kaminsky — We Lived Happily during the War

Poetry Unbound

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The Poem of Forgive Us

Forgive us is in parenthesis. We forgive us lived happily during the so why are they saying, forgive us? The whole book really uses choosing not to see and choosing not to listen as moral reckonings that don't prey on questions about impairment. In situations where there are communities of people who are experiencing a certain kind of luxury while other people are experiencing oppression, this voice of forgive us is asking the reader what might the journey be for you?, she says.

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