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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
hesitant and triumphant,
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This review is from: Robert Frost in Russia (Paperback)
A beautiful little book about Frost's apparently well documented journey to Russia in the early 60s (I only vaguely recall it), his important visits with Yevtushenko (who proves himself to be as usual preoccupied with Yevtushenko - brilliant and notoriously sidetracked) and the great Anna Akhmatova (the dangerously vital witness to the worst of Soviet abuse of its artists), and finally his over-arching visit with Krushchev. The book is compact and to the point, much like Frost's poems. A bit of Frost's personal hesitancy comes through, though we find it but precedes his customary plain-spoken triumph in Russia, as in America, once he begins to feel comfortable - a requisite luxury that remained important to Frost throughout his life. Strongly written by someone who was there, it's a gem of a book for anyone interested in Robert Frost's conception of America and her artists, revealing a robustly innocent kind of faith one unfortunately finds nowhere nowadays.
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Robert Frost in Russia by F. D. Reeve (Paperback - April 1, 2001)
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