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Post-War East European Poetry: The Still Unborn About the Dead


To explore the reconstruction of Central and Eastern Europe through the currency of its poetry, through the desperate honour of its poets.

With the war and subsequent occupation of Europe, literature, especially poetry, replaced consensus politics. Poets became the true accountants, and their ledgers contained the unprofitability of the human soul.

A reading of the finest poets of the past half-century situates the times and the seminal engagements born to restore independence. The poets were/are personally well-known to the lecturer, with the sad exception of the four great Russian poets, Celan and Brecht.


Michael March

V29.9140.001

75996

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Mon/Wed 1:30-2:50pm

Fall 2010
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