tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620937750697214368.post1818226185577475081..comments2023-05-17T08:37:24.213-04:00Comments on Christine Boyka Kluge: Shadow EmbraceChristinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11019640015329956061noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620937750697214368.post-27312069417653068402009-05-06T10:07:00.000-04:002009-05-06T10:07:00.000-04:00Hey there, Wendy! I have that book on your author...Hey there, Wendy! I have that book on your author recommendation and am anxious to read it. Thanks for the thoughts ... really, it is quite startling. Go to today's post, 5/6, for a poem from Dancing in Odessa by Ilya Kaminsky (who writes about Mandelstam).Christinehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11019640015329956061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3620937750697214368.post-3592850157083641742009-05-03T17:44:00.000-04:002009-05-03T17:44:00.000-04:00mandalstam's come up a few times lately. read a bo...mandalstam's come up a few times lately. read a book by John Crowley (The Translator) which centers around the defection of a Russian poet to America, one of his students and the Cuban missle crisis. i had to stop a few times to think about the potency of what it was to live in a country where one might be shot for being a poet; they fueled revolutions. not only poets but their readers memorized poems for safe-keeping.wendy lewishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09915509347805843753noreply@blogger.com