Last week, famed Russian poet Andrei Voznesensky passed away and with him a lineage of Russian poets under Khrushchev who were the true rock stars even under Soviet rule. Maybe dictatorships have their perks. Also memorable quote “Bad literature is its own form of treason.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/03/books/03poets.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
"Whatever reach contemporary poetry had in Russian society has vanished like wood smoke."
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