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casparb's review
Thought I'd run through these today what a curious man I should get my hands on a Russian selected at some point. Would be worthwhile tracing the development of OM in relation to Ezra Pound for reasons that become clear.
These are deft and piercing even in translation. There's a consciousness of this. His Grecian slant in the earlier collections - I'll cautiously call it an address to the Sapphic poets of antiquity as I do think I noticed a sly reference to Anyte of Tegea as well as Sappho - does of course make one think of Pound's Lustra . Perhaps perhaps
These are deft and piercing even in translation. There's a consciousness of this. His Grecian slant in the earlier collections - I'll cautiously call it an address to the Sapphic poets of antiquity as I do think I noticed a sly reference to Anyte of Tegea as well as Sappho - does of course make one think of Pound's Lustra . Perhaps perhaps
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