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, ...
"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 ...
Poets whom I've written about for this project, or plan to write about, include Nathaniel Mackey, Paul Celan, Osip Mandelstam, and Aimé Césaire. Here is a link to a talk I gave on Celan and Mandelstam ...