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" Campaign Against Akhmatova Begins (1922)

She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.
Trotsky reviewed her in Pravda: One reads with dismay...
and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).
She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.
Fog choked the city.
Russia's great poets were all about 35 years ol
Scraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun. "

Anne Carson , Men in the Off Hours


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Anne Carson quote : <i>Campaign Against Akhmatova Begins (1922)</i><br /><br />She ran from lamppost to lamppost, the wind slammed.<br />Trotsky reviewed her in <i>Pravda: One reads with dismay...</i><br />and an unofficial Communist Party resolution banned her poetry (1925).<br />She didn't notice, didn't know what a Communist Party was in those days.<br />Fog choked the city.<br />Russia's great poets were all about 35 years ol<br />Scraggly trees wandered by the canal in dim sun.