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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872862258 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100665020 02 0872862259 03 9780872862258 15 9780872862258 BC 1 A01 Serge, Victor Victor Serge 2 B06 Brook, James James Brook James Brook is a poet and the principal editor of <I>Resisting the Virtual Life: The Culture and Politics of Information</I> (City Lights) and the translator of many works, including <I>My Tired Father</I> by Gellu Naum and <I>Panegyric</I> by Guy Debord 01 eng 112 00 112 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Poetry in Translation 01 <P>Victor Serge, an authentic witness of the political and cultural struggles of this century, wrote these poems of Resistancein Orenburg in Central Asia, where he was sent into exile by Stalin in 1933. He eulogizes close friends and comrades and movingly records and shares the lives of the people he lived among on the steppe, far from the centers of power, intrigue, and history.</P> <P>Richard Greeman writes in his introduction that Serge "spoke the truth aloud and perpetuated the spiritual tradition of the Russian revolutionary intelligentsia at the very moment when the voices of his colleagues were forced into silence (so that) this collection of poems, written in deportation on the Ural, represents a unique strand of continuity between a lost generation and what one hopes will be a new beginning, 'with no blank pages,' in Soviet literature."</P> 02 Victor Serge, an authentic witness of the political and cultural struggles of this century, wrote these poems of Resistancein Orenburg in Central Asia, where he was sent into exile by Stalin in 1933. He eulogizes close friends and comrades and... 08 "Victor Serge's Memoirs contain the fiber and metaphor of poetry: his novels are replete with the same pulse and rhythm. Even his titles- Birth of Our Power- have a ringing quality. Now, with Resistance, we are given the poems that described and survived the midnight of our century, written with a balanced passion and sobriety-optimism of the will-from the other shore." Christopher Hitchens 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100665020/images/87286100665020L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100665020/images/87286100665020S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100665020 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 19891101 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 19891101 01 02 5.95 USD