“Come here, image.”
“Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed.”
“Here is another miserable mental image I will have to catalog and make room for.”
“First you must have the images, then come the words.”
“What we are doing here is only the image of what we would like to do.”
“Twenty-two poems covered the period from Lev’s first serious efforts to his arrest in 1948 at the age of nineteen. Very Mandelstamian, I adjudged: well-made, and studiously conversational, and coming close, here and there, to the images that really hurt and connect.”