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No. 01-02 (2023): On Behalf of Silence, Seeking Sanctuary

The White Page Burns

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  • Oksana Vasyakina

Cover image

Vsevolod Nekrasov’s text 'I’m silent/stay silent,’ page from a samizdat publication of Nekrasov's poems, prepared by Ivan Akhmetiev in the early 1980s (https://philology.hse.ru/vnekrasov-archive/archive/641412991)

This poetic essay considers how politics changes optics of reading poems written more than fifty years ago. The author compares her feelings about Vsevolod Nekrasov’s text 'I’m silent/stay silent’ before and after the events of February 24, 2022. 

Cite as

Vasyakina O (2023) The White Page Burns. The February Journal, 01-02: 133-138. DOI: 10.35074/FJ.2023.85.89.007