Zhadan and Betts: Poetry’s Transformative Power and Bearing Witness in Times of War
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Yale historian Marci Shore recently facilitated a letter exchange between two unlikely dialogue partners—namely, between American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan. Before discussing and reflecting on the correspondence between these two poets (now published as “
Zhadan and Betts: Poetry’s Transformative Power and Bearing Witness in Times of War
Zhadan and Betts: Poetry’s Transformative…
Zhadan and Betts: Poetry’s Transformative Power and Bearing Witness in Times of War
Yale historian Marci Shore recently facilitated a letter exchange between two unlikely dialogue partners—namely, between American poet Reginald Dwayne Betts and Ukrainian poet Serhiy Zhadan. Before discussing and reflecting on the correspondence between these two poets (now published as “