Iris DeMent: The Trackless Woods
Rob Hughes, Uncut, September 2015
IRIS DEMENT AND Anna Akhmatova would appear to have very little in common, at least on the surface. Anna Akhmatova was a Russian aristocrat whose rebel poetry documented the sweeping changes in her homeland during the first half of the 2oth Century. Hers was a remarkable and troubled life, one that mapped and endured a catalogue of hardships and horrors.
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