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DRAMATISTS > poet, critic > Osip Mandelstam
When my string's...
Vendor: DRAMATISTS
When my string's tuned tight as Igor's Song,
when I get my breath back, you can hear
in my voice the earth.
Source: Stanza 8-translated by W. S. Merwin & Clarence Brown, 1973
-- Osip Mandelstam, (Jan 3 1891-1938), Polish-Russian poet, critic; His Acmeism was a mixture of poetics and moral doctrine, the former based on an intuitive and purely verbal logic of inner association and the latter on a kind of democratic humanism.