<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460755" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>0299 Customs and Excise</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The postman who never looks me in the face<br>(was it something the garlic said?) <br>has just delivered a parcel<br>heavy with history</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and I’m left holding it and wondering <br>what I’m holding</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In 1972 Marina Vlady, the film actress<br>who had found favour with the<br>appropriate authorities<br>was handed a suitcase at Moscow’s <br>Sheremetevo Airport by the poet<br>Yeveny Yevtushenko; it contained<br>in its 15 kilograms of manuscript, <br>the lifeblood of 245 Russian poets</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It took until 1993 for this to be published; <br>my –(how can I dare to call it my) –<br>Russian-red-covered,1078-page copy<br>of this great event, this blood transfusion of poetry, <br>entered Brooklyn Public Library<br>on November 12,1993<br>only to be removed from the shelf<br>on February 12,1996<br>scrawled ‘mutilated’ and stamped<br>‘withdrawn from free use in<br>city cultural welfare institutions…’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">all because some reader (some émigré<br>rediscovering his own ‘mutilated’ culture<br>‘withdrawn from free use’, <br>in the winter warmth of<br>Brooklyn Public Library?) <br>has pencilled an implied question or two by underlining<br>the translation of ‘My Leafless Maple Tree’<br>by the universally beloved Sergey Yesinin<br>and offered an alternative word<br>in shaky English which looks more like Cyrillic, <br>in the comment ‘he diverted himself with heavy drinking’, <br>for the word ‘diverted’…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now I notice also on this page 290<br>headed ‘Children of the Golden Age’<br>a small dampness which could be a tear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460755" data-title="0299 Customs and Excise de Michael Shepherd" data-description="The postman who never looks me in the face (was it something the garlic said?) has just delivered a parcel heavy with history and I’m left holding it and wondering what I’m holding In 1972 Marina Vlady, the film actress who had found favou..."></div> </div> </div>

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