Resurrecting the Poets of Tbilisi

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John Steinbeck traveled to Soviet Georgia in 1947 and marveled afterward that Georgian poetry was read there “by everyone,” that Georgian poets “were buried on an equal footing with their kings.”1 Steinbeck, however, was likely unaware of Paolo Iashvili, a leader of Georgia’s Blue Horns, a group of Symbolist poets that was part of a […]

Original source: https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2022/11/24/resurrecting-the-poets-of-tbilisi-maya-jaggi/

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