[New-Poetry] Life of Anna Akhmatova

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_http://www.powells.com/review/2006_06_15_ 
(http://www.powells.com/review/2006_06_15) 
Anna of All the Russias: A Life of Anna Akhmatova 
by Elaine Feinstein  
Fear and the Muse 
A Review by Michael Scammell 
 
One day in the fall of 1939, a tall middle-aged woman dressed in black  
slowly shuffled forward in a long line of hundreds of other women outside the  
Kresty prison in Leningrad. It was freezing cold, and like the others she was  
holding a package of food for an imprisoned relative, in this case her only son.  
He had already served a term of hard labor on the White Sea Canal, and was 
now  in another part of the gulag in the far north of Russia. Suddenly someone 
in the  line called the tall woman by name, causing a blue-lipped younger woman 
behind  her to start with surprise. "Can you describe this?" asked the 
younger one.  "Yes, I can," said the tall woman. "I can." 
 
 
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