What did you say?
Kenneth Rexroth

How many stopped writing at thirty?
How many died of prefrontal
Lobotomies in the Communist Party?
How many are lost in the back wards
Of provincial madhouses?
How many on the advice of
Their psychoanalysts, decided
A business career was best after all?

- Kenneth Rexroth
Soviets in Scotland, Brits in USSR 1950s

Soviets in Scotland, Brits in USSR 1950s

Posted on Oct 10, 2018 in Uncategorized

Sometimes an extended dig in an archive turns up the unexpected. This happened when I was in Moscow last winter. I had been spinning through wheels of microfilm without much luck for a few days when suddenly all these photographs appeared on the screen. The photos were cuttings of newspaper items, all seemingly reporting the […]