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Favorite Poem Project: "The Sentence" by Anna Akhmatova

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In this video episode [6:40] from Favorite Poem Project, Dr. Nancy Nersessian of Atlanta, Georgia, describes her connection to the poem "The Sentence" by Anna Akhmatova. She describes her tragic childhood loss and brother being "broken" from his experience from fighting in Vietnam.

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death, depression, drugs, poetry, vietnam
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dying, heroin, poem, "the sentence", anna akhmatova, favorite poem project, ptsd, poet laureate, robert pinsky, examples of poetry
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  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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