Poetry unto death …

… Yesterday Never Existed by Sophie Pinkham | Poetry Foundation. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

In Black Earth, Peter France has made all the right choices. He wisely declined to attempt to precisely reproduce Mandelstam’s use of rhyme and meter—a near-certain road to disaster for those translating Russian poetry into English, even poetry much less complex and supersaturated with metaphor than Mandelstam’s.