Messages 13-5 deleted by topic administrator 07-12-2006 02:18 PM 4 Bookninja 12-14-2003 09:21 PM ET (US) Yevgeny Profiled, but Not by the KGB - the Times, They Are a Changin... A birthday present from the NYT.** Home Edited 12-14-2003 10:32 PM 3 Zed 12-01-2003 04:06 PM ET (US) Good thing THAT doesn't sound like received wisdom, just so much Talk You're a brave man they tell me.                                  I'm not. Courage has never been my quality. Only I thought it disproportionate so to degrade myself as others did. No foundations trembled. My voice no more than laughed at pompous falsity; I did no more than write, never denounced, I left out nothing I had thought about, defended who deserved it, put a brand on the untalented, the ersatz writers (doing what had anyhow to be done). And now they press to tell me that I'm brave. How sharply our children will be ashamed taking at last their vengeance for these horrors remembering how in so strange a time common integrity could look like courage. Hey Ninja, who's the best translator of YY? 2 G.G. Giller 12-01-2003 02:54 PM ET (US) Yevgeny Yevtushenko. I love Russian poets with Osip Mandelstam being a big influence. But, Yevgeny Yevtushenko is a pretentious poet who is treated as a minor and somewhat dubious character in Russia. He was the parties poet masquerading as the peoples poet. His poetry is as flimsy as the French poet Jacque Prevert, but not nearly as entertaining. 1 Bookninja 11-30-2003 09:53 PM ET (US) Ah, the Man Who was Read Aloud at My Wedding... A profile of one of my favourite poets, Yevgeny Yevtushenko. (I wish I had some dude penetrating the masses with my poems.) Home	Upgrade to PRO Upload pictures, personalize your board, and more! About these ads