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Like Rembrandt, chiaroscuro’s martyr, I’ve gone deep into time’s numbness, The sharpness of my burning rib Protected neither by these watchmen nor By this sentry asleep beneath [...]

I’m in a sunlit spiderweb now— Black-haired, light brown tones— People need light and sky blue air, They need bread and Elbrus’ snow. I can’t sort this out alone, [...]

Osip Mandelstam (1891–1938) is regarded alongside Boris Pasternak, Marina Tsvetaeva, and Anna Akhmatova as one of the greatest voices of 20th Century Russian poetry. He was born in Warsaw, [...]