Unknown to one another until the mid-1980s, poets Brett Rutherford and Pieter Vanderbeck had each been writing intense narrative and satirical poems about Russia and Eastern Europe for many years. The first edition of this book came out in 1992, with both the horrors of totalitarian regimes, and the jubilation of liberation, expressed in its pages. Tracing terror and resistance in Russia, Romania, East Germany through the lens of the persecuted artist -- such as a nameless writer in Rumania pursued and beaten by thugs, or Shostakovich's years of midnight watches for the men in black he...
Unknown to one another until the mid-1980s, poets Brett Rutherford and Pieter Vanderbeck had each been writing intense narrative and satirical poems a...