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Requiem

Anna Akhmatova

Form
Form Poem
Year
Year 1963
Originally in
Originally in Russian
Pages
Pages 50

A poet stands in the prison queues of the Terror with hundreds of other women, and answers one whispered question, can you describe this, with the poem itself.

Can you describe this? And I said: I can.
Requiem, Anna Akhmatova

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