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thank you, Alexander Chee
Grey is the Color of Hope 4
"Raya has very definite ideas about poets: she's married to one, after all, and it was her devotion to him that landed her in the camps. To her, poets are like small children who are incapable of looking after themselves. She is convinced that if food is not placed before them, they will forget to eat, or that if they are not forced to go to bed at a reasonable hour, they will sit up all night communing with their Muse. . . She was like a nursemaid to me in the years we spent together in the camp. Also, she liked my poetry, and we would spend hours reciting to each other; she would read her husband's poems, and I would read mine. . ."
~~ from
Grey is the Color of Hope
by Irina Ratushinskaya
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