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Writing in a society centered on social ritual, Kushner has always celebrated the refuge of private life. His is often a sort of chamber poetry, contained and contemplative. This gathering of more than sixty poems, from Kushner's first collection of 1962 through the present, traces the poet's development and range.
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A stoic witness to the enormities of history and day-to-day survival, Russian lyric poet Kushner writes with the pulsing immediacy of Boris Pasternak and the self-contained composure of Anna Akhmatova. Even up in heaven, suspects this product of icy Leningrad, "we will find winter . . . all sounds canceled, stilled by total peace." With jolting symbolism, he rages at poet Osip Mandelstam's disappearance in a labor camp ("Mozart's skull, from between two columns of the news, calmly eyed us"). Kushner, born in 1936, is a deeply cultured yet down-to-earth poet who puts a contemporary spin on classical rhymes and meters. His achingly poignant lyrics give palpable form to love's wrenching separations, the omnipresence of death, the elusive search for a pattern in our lives.
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