Yevgeny Yevtushenko, RIP/Memory Eternal

     Back when I was a teenager I read in TIME Magazine about Yevtushenko has his problems with the Soviet system. It struck me odd that anyone would get so worked up over a poet. But I have come a long way from that naive opinion.
   
     I am glad that the fall of Communism meant that he could travel and write more freely. Reading about his time in America at the University of Tulsa, one sees a picture of a great poet who made poetry come alive for all sorts of students.

     And that is what it

's all about, in any language. Below some links:





https://www.poemhunter.com/yevgeny-yevtushenko/poems/page-2/?a=a&l=3&y=

http://remember.org/witness/babiyar

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/01/yevgeny-yevtushenko-russian-poet-babi-yar-dies-84