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Blog Review 9: Helen Mort Reviews Natalya Gorbanevskaya’s ‘Selected Poems’

April 13, 2012
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Natalya Gorbanevskaya will be best known to some as the activist to whom Joan Baez dedicated her song 'Natalia'. Part of the Soviet dissident movement, Gorbanevskaya was arrested in 1969 and interred in a Soviet psychiatric prison for several years.…

September 16, 2011
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I’m a sucker for dogs. Dogs are not taboo in poetry as cats are. I cite Suzanne Batty’s 'The Barking Dog' and Chase Twitchell’s 'The Language of Dogs'. Mark Doty, too, writes dogs into poems and his memoir Dog Days.…

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