As I read the letter after letter I couldn’t stop thinking about Boris’s refusal to speak his own language as an act of protest against the military invasion. What does it mean for a poet to refuse to speak his own language?Is language a place you can leave? Is language a wall you can cross? What is on the other side of that wall?
Wednesday, March 09, 2022
A very informed and informative account …
… Ilya Kaminsky on Ukrainian, Russian, and the Language of War. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
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