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Osip Mandelstam
Osip Mandelstam
Born in January, 1891, in Warsaw, Poland, Osip Emilievich Mandelstam was raised...
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[Toward the empty earth]

 
by Osip Mandelstam
read and translated by Jean Valentine

				

				

				
				





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Oct. 16, 2009
Tischman Auditorium, New York City
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