The Word That Causes Death's Defeat: Poems of Memory (Annals of Communism) by Anna Akhmatova

Author:Anna Akhmatova [Unknown]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2011-02-13T01:55:00+00:00

A sense of hugeness and littleness at the same time. It's like that when you're in love. Signs appear in poems, dates have strange coincidences; your heart sinks to your feet each time the phone rings or the postman knocks; the pages of a letter tremble; and then it turns out-this is just a human being: no more and no less; a human being-a head, hands, feet. Such an enormous and such an utterly ordinary and trifling thing: a human being. Here he is, right in front of me-a five-letter word-Lyova. Not mine, hers-all the sleepless nights, the dreams, the nonmeetings and meetings, the [reception] windows above spittle-stained floors, the red cloths on the tables, the applications, the notifications, the parcels, the hair that she put in her notebook of poems [to see if her papers were examined while she was out], and the poems that were burned.... Two decades of her life. Materialized time-decades-and materialized spacethousands of kilometers. And this, it turns out, is just a human beingand he's here, in this room. You can touch him with your hand or call him by name.

"Mama" "My darling son. My sweet boy'1

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