Jesse Hilson’s Reviews > Lyric Poetry and Modern Politics: Russia, Poland, and the West > Status Update
Jesse Hilson
is on page 83 of 344
I do these things too backwards sometimes. I read the biography before I read the novels; I read the criticism before I read the poetry. Non-fiction comes first. Backwards.
— May 30, 2026 07:17AM
Like flag
Jesse’s Previous Updates
Jesse Hilson
is on page 120 of 344
Slow going, and I’m going to let you know every step of the way. Basically, Russian lyric poetry of the Stalinist era was unique and special, and many western postmodern theorists of the “death of the author” sound mighty dumb when you reflect that Stalin was killing authors, both literally and in a might as well be dead civic sense (censorship, harassment, imprisonment, disappearance). Russia is different.
— May 31, 2026 10:40AM
