[New-Poetry] Branching Out: Stewart on Akhmatova

[jforjames at aol.com]

Today I heard a good lecture on Anna Akhmatova by Susan Stewart. Part of the Branching Out 
http://www.poetrybranchingout.org/
series that Poetry Society of America is behind. Hear some of the past lectures here.
http://www.hplct.org/branchingout.htm
This poem translated by Stanley Kunitz was the first she read in the course of her lecture. The he is her first husband the poet Gulimov.

"Three Things Enchanted Him..."

Three things enchanted him:
white peacocks, evensong,
and faded maps of America.
He couldn't stand bawling brats,
or raspberry jam with his tea,
or womanish hysteria.
...And he was married to me.

(1901)

Finnegan
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