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Love, pain & lyricism.(The Word that Causes Death's Defeat)(Book Review)
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December 31, 2004|
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The Word that Causes Death's Defeat, by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Nancy K. Anderson (Yale, 352 pp., $30)
In the white fields I became a quiet girl,
With the voice of a bird I cry out for love.
--Akhmatova
EVEN though the greatest lyric poets cannot be translated--imagine trying to translate Keats into Russian, let alone Chinese-Anna Akhmatova should be known at least biographically and thematically to everyone interested in literature, and here scholar Nancy K. Anderson has done a superb job. Akhmatova-I take this somewhat on faith-is one of the ...
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Analysis: New astronomical findings and the latest telescope technology
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World's most sensitive astronomical camera developed at the Universite de Montreal.
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