Flowers & Bullets
San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books, 1970. Second Printing. Stapled Wrappers. "The Statue of Liberty's color/ Grows ever more deathly pale/ As, loving freedom with bullets/ And taking liberty with bullets,/ You shoot at yourself, America." ("Freedom To Kill," first stanza, pg. 7) Two poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (1933-2017), the great Russian poet. "Freedom To Kill" (quoted above) expresses Yevtushenko's reaction to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy in 1968;..... More
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