I'm All Of Rough Bark

Ivan Kharabarov

I discovered today that I have some of the poems from the book The New Russian Poets 1953-1968 stored in my iPhone. I was relieved as I somehow lost the book, despite it being so important to me.

I think poetry is worth talking about, worth resurrecting. It’s extinct, but that’s exactly the point. A society that lives with no poetry, will progress fast…