ONE OF THE MAIN refrains of Boris Slutsky’s poetry is “davnym-davno” — long, long ago. This tautological adverb holds a key not only to how Slutsky, one of the most important Soviet Jewish poets, treats the temporal, but also to his verse as a whole, which turns in on itself with repetitions, parallelisms, persistent rhymes, […]
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