Word: praeger
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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Bleak Notations. The hypocrisy of the code of socialist realism is equally repellent to Yesenin-Volpin. His Russia is one of pain ("The only beauty that I know"), drugs, suffering, alcoholism, prison; many of the poems in The Leaf of Spring (Praeger; $3) bear such bleak notations as Lubyanka, Karaganda and Prison of Chernovtsy-the jails, mental institutions and concentration camps where Yesenin-Volpin has spent most of his adult life...