Note posted to Wom_Po (Women Poets)
Thanks for posting.
I can relate to her, as Soviet purges, conducted by Josef Stalin, were so similar to what is happening now in Burma.
Yes, who is the best translator is very important.
I much prefer the first version -- "and God in fact did not save us" by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward.
If I remember right, Max Hayward is a famous professor of Russian literature.
I think he came to a book launch in about 1994 to the University of Pennsylvania, where Yevtushenko also came to launch the bilingual anthology of Russian poetry, that Jackie O. helped to facilitate.
I remember it because Yevtushenko asked about Aung San Suu Kyi.
Kyi May Kaung
