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Tuesday, May 2, 2017

“After Anna Akhmatova" by Cynthia Zarin

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May 2, 2017
 

After Anna Akhmatova

 
Cynthia Zarin
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About This Poem

 

"As so many of us are, I've been thinking about the current predicament in which we find ourselves. How to respond? I thought of Anna Akhmatova's poem 'Requiem,' and the story of the woman who whispered to her, as she waited in the prison-visitors line, in Leningrad, 'Can you describe this?' The poem is an homage."
—Cynthia Zarin

 

Cynthia Zarin is the author of Orbit (Knopf, 2017). She lives in New York City and teaches at Yale University.

 

Poetry by Zarin

 

Orbit

(Knopf, 2017)

"Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova" by Yusef Komunyakaa

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"In Memory of M. B." by Anna Akhmatova

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"Briefly It Enters, and Briefly Speaks" by Jane Kenyon

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