Anna Akhmatova’s “Requiem”
"In the poems of the cycle, the lyrical heroine gives voice to the collective experience of the Russian people through the articulation of her private pain as a mother and lover. Although now regarded as one of Akhmatova’s supreme achievements, Requiem was never published in Russia during her lifetime."
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What Sparks Poetry:
Susan Tichy on Jane Augustine's Traverse
"Spare, unselfconscious, nearly transparent, Augustine’s poems reach out to the things of this world like a ship whose constant soundings describe its own location. No part of her lived experience is excluded, so a reader may find herself meditating on a painting, carrying a backpack, searching for a homeless man under a scaffold, or pulled suddenly back to a parent’s death-night twenty years before." |
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