if I ever will be teaching creative writing, this scheme from a book I stumbled upon at bookcrossing station will go well alongside with “Analysis of the Poetic Text” by Yuri Lotman (I'm not sure yet if it is available in English, but it is fundamental.

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Jerusalem doctor Meir Antopolsky told that recently, one elderly patient of his grumbled after listening to the medical recommendations: “Oh, I visited another Russian doctor once, He also suggested I quit smoking”.

It was Jewish poet Shaul Tchernichovsky (he died in 1943).

(03/03)

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Polina Barskova, poet and researcher of the cultural life during the Siege of Leningrad, once told that she was giving a lesson to her students in some old bookstore in Amherst. After the lecture, the owner came to her: “There was another Russian here once. He used to fall from his chair all the […]

Jerusalem doctor Meir Antopolsky told that recently, one elderly patient of his grumbled after listening to the medical recommendations: “Oh, I visited another Russian doctor once, He also suggested I quit smoking”.

It was Jewish poet Shaul Tchernichovsky (he died in 1943).

(03/03)

@bookstodon

Polina Barskova, poet and researcher of the cultural life during the Siege of Leningrad, once told that she was giving a lesson to her students in some old bookstore in Amherst. After the lecture, the owner came to her: “There was another Russian here once. He used to fall from his chair all the […]

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Original poem: https://www.facebook.com/urij.solomko.544143/posts/pfbid02eTsETfNU8SVEbEW5w3rDMYBJ7HivRTLqfJ3wro3giKW8xB282U48djdBp7hb5thhl