Wow, I admire Anna Akhmatova, I can’t imagine her pain and suffering, I only have known a comas worth about her life, loves and works, and here you are, the real deal of knowing and knowledge. Thank you, Lady Larisa
Thank you, Portia. G. was less known to us because he was banned, and I couldn't afford to buy his tiny book of poems on the black market for my monthly salary. But interest was enormous, and, listening to our professor about G, I interrupted her and, rather impertinent, declared that his Gyraff was better than our Soviet poets's verses.
Wow, I admire Anna Akhmatova, I can’t imagine her pain and suffering, I only have known a comas worth about her life, loves and works, and here you are, the real deal of knowing and knowledge. Thank you, Lady Larisa
Fascinating as usual. As an adult, Gumilov reminds me a little of Rupert Brooke (not his writing, obviously)...
Lots family things this week
My daughter’s birthday
My mother gave me five volumes of Mark Twain
I have Huck but mislaid
Tom
My congrats and happy birthday to your daughter! Do you still mislaid Tom?
Yes i never figured out what happened to my copy of Tom Sawyer. but i did like Huck Finn better and Connecticut Yankee too.
Wonderful. Always wonderful.
Gumiliov's style is so different from Blok's and Esenins', but he was a great poet. A brilliant essay, Larisa!
Thank you, Portia. G. was less known to us because he was banned, and I couldn't afford to buy his tiny book of poems on the black market for my monthly salary. But interest was enormous, and, listening to our professor about G, I interrupted her and, rather impertinent, declared that his Gyraff was better than our Soviet poets's verses.
Naughty Larisa, I hope you didn't get yourself in trouble.
Not me, but the professor turned out to be very honest at the end and was thrown out of university.
What a terrible thing!
I look forward to reading all this again
But I was struck how your poet
Loved war, the shrapnel
The excitement
When I was briefly in Army training
I wanted the bullets to scream by me
Erupt the earth in front and around me
And I could add my own fuss
The sharp burst from the FN semi automatic
The exploding targets
Korean War hero
Says to me
Good shooting
welcome Larisa
Thank you for interest in "my" poet. He loved danger; he paid for it. I like your answer in the shape of a poem.