Thursday, January 1, 2004

How Can You Bear To Look At The Neva? Comments

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How can you bear to look at the Neva?
How can you bear to cross the bridges?.
Not in vain am I known as the grieving one
Since the time you appeared to me.
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Anna Akhmatova
snow Wings
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Sarah Moor 15 September 2011

See Gillian Allnutt's 'North' for a contemporary reference to this poem, in which she uses the 'Neva' as a play on the Geordie 'never' and the bridges as a hidden reference in her own poem to Newcastle.

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Richard Hexem 31 March 2010

A very powerful writer. This write had much to give.

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