I wanted to love it, but I spent the entire volume feeling disconnected and unengaged. Though I loved his poem "Youth", no other poem made any sort of impression upon me (even upon a second read), and no lines gave me pause. I believe I was a bit put off by the impersonal tone with which he addre...
Osip Mandelstam in the eyes of the NKVDThe people need poetry that will be their own secretto keep them awake forever,and bathe them in the bright-haired waveof its breathing.Osip Mandelstam (1891-1938) was born in Warsaw to a wealthy Jewish family that was sufficiently well connected to be allow...