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Unread 07-20-2017, 09:36 PM
John Isbell John Isbell is offline
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I love this line: the huge laughing cockroaches on his top lip.

For me, Mandelstam is easier of access than Akhmatova. This is the poem that got him his first arrest.
Off to Astana on Sunday, then Helsinki, then Oxford, Paris, Strasbourg.

Cheers,
John
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