Its mode is to cherish without limit. You could say it is idolatrous art. Some poems, the great poems, are true to their specific situations deep down, but they also have a universal quality that lets them live again and again, even in apparently unrelated circumstances. Saturday, August 04, 2012. Three cats stare out of a plexiglas cage. The world stuck, they try to snap it.

Monday, August 3, 2015. Margarita, you make me smile; I can imagine us being pen pals when we were little, fancying ourselves cosmopolitan intellectuals. Thursday, August 21, 2014. Three Questions to Three Women Writers, or Russians on Russian. Olga Livshin, Head of the Russian Program at Boston University, was born in 1978 in Odessa but now lives .