Brodsky Leningrad Visas

Nixon is coming to Moscow and a professor of Soviet Studies from Yale has been visiting  poet in Leningrad.

The Professor driven from Marburg is struggling to return and has come as far as Amsterdam.  But was this student of the logician also smoking ?

Did Akhmatova's 1945 visitor ever stop at Bard ?

As Brodsky might have told Volkov, abstract from the circumstances.

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