It’s not a first edition, not even a hardback, just a slim paperback barely held together by its spine, a loose folder of ...

After reciting an unflattering poem about Stalin to a small group of friends, Osip Mandelstam was betrayed to the police and endured five years in exile before dying in transit to the gulag. His wife, ...

Osip Mandelstam, Anna Swir, Jacques Prévert, Gloria Fuertes, Yannis Ritsos, and Naomi Replansky. One day, Bert asked me to ...

"In addition to the poems by Ovid and [Osip] Mandelstam, the source of inspiration was a folk song by Taras Shevchenko, which praises the Dnipro River ["The Dnipro roars and groans" – Ukrainska ...