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Anna Akhmatova, “We Don't Know How to Say Goodbye,” translated by Stanley Kunitz, from Poems of Akhmatova. Copyright 1973 by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward. Reprinted by permission of Darhansoff and Verrill Literary Agency on behalf of Stanley Kunitz.

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First eBook Edition: January 2003

ISBN: 978-0-446-55534-0

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