Poetry, Politics, and Autobiography after the Russian Revolution
by
Donald Loewen
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2007
At a time in Russia's history when poets could be (and sometimes were) killed for a poem, the autobiographies of three prominent poets, Osip Mandelstam, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Boris Pasternak, became a courageous defense of poetry. The Most Dangerous Art shows how these autobiographies trace an emotional...