Isaiah 58:1: “Shout out! Do not hold back!”
“Every person always has handy a dozen glib little reasons why he is right not to sacrifice himself.” These words appear in the opening chapter of The Gulag Archipelago, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s voluminous account of Stalin’s terrors.
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Ilya Kaminsky (b.1977) is a Ukrainian-American poet, critic, and translator. He was born in Odessa and came to the United States in 1993. His collection Deaf Republic was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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