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Vladimir Nabokov

Poetry

Winter 1979

Demon

By Vladimir Nabokov, translated by Joseph Brodsky

From the Russian.  Where have you flown here from? What kind of grief d’you carry? Tell, flier, why your lips do lack a tint of life, and why the sea […]