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...armies. Both used summary executions of soldiers and peasants to stop desertions and provision armies, and each permitted bloody pogroms against Jews as recreation for troops. Figes tells the story well, in a very long volume that never becomes unwieldy. He lets Lenin's friend and tolerated critic, the poet Maxim Gorky, make the most telling observation, in a 1919 letter to his wife: "Only the Commissars live a pleasant life these days. They steal as much as they can from the ordinary people in order to pay for their courtesans and their unsocialist luxuries...
...Local poets gathered last night to pay tribute to Allen Ginsberg, the beat poet who wrote, "America, I have given you all, and now I am nothing...
Nine Boston poets, including National Poet Laureate Robert Pinsky, read Ginsberg's poetry in Science Center...
...Europe, he is recognized as the American poet, along with Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson," Solano said. "Everyone else is seen as British...
...successful, and why it resonated. "Cantata 2000" represented the artistic high point of the undistracted sense of irony that pervades our culture. In the singers' voices, I heard moments of beauty. But in their words, I understood no appreciation for the real. Even in the staged poetry lounge, the poet becomes a vehicle for nonsense, and then an object for beating...