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The Russian-Jewish-American Triangle of Maxim D. Shrayer
Maxim Shrayer’s collection of poems, Of Politics and Pandemics: Songs of a Russian Immigrant, begins with three epigraphs — by Fernando Pessoa, Ilya Selvinsky, and Carl Sandburg, respectively. Each of them is deeply suggestive. Pessoa, the great Portuguese modernist, developed the ...