In the preface to a poem in this language, a smile glides over "what had once been a face" of a woman who asks "And can you describe this?"
In the preface to a poem in this language, a smile glides over "what had once been a face" of a woman who asks "And can you describe this?" A poem in this language describes a man whose "thick fingers are bulky and fat like live-baits," who is "forging his rules and decrees like horseshoes." In this language, an author described crying for "seventeen months" and falling at the "hangmen's feet" after the arrest of her son. The speaker of a poem in this language says he is "one massive, soundless scream" and notes that "I seem to be Dreyfus" while looking at a place "where no monument stands." This language was used for poems like "Requiem," Poem Without a Hero, and "Babi Yar." For 10 points, name this language used by Osip Mandelstam, Anna Akhmatova, and Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
In the preface to a poem in this language, a smile glides over "what had once been a face" of a woman who asks "And can you describe this?"
Russian