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Return to the Sacred Grove

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An unlikely dissident inspired by the classics, Tomas Venclova remains Lithuania’s greatest poet.

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Classic and contemporary poems to celebrate the advent of spring.
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By Frank O’Hara
          Am I to become profligate as if I were a blonde? Or religious as if I were French?

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