Flowers and Bullets & Freedom to Kill
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Title
Flowers and Bullets & Freedom to Kill
Subject
Literature, Political Tensions
Description
Russian poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko’s two poems in this small book use two individual deaths to address political tensions in the United States. In “Freedom to Kill,” about Kennedy’s assassination, he warns, “You shoot yourself, America. In “Flowers and Bullets,” about the shooting death of Alison Krause at Kent State by the National Guard, he invokes the natural world to rise up against man-made weapons. This version of "Freedom to Kill" is Ferlinghetti’s adaptation of a literal translation published in the New York Times.
Creator
Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko; English versions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Anthony Kahn
Publisher
City Lights Books
Date
1970
Contributor
Book Club of California Library
Rights
Photo credit: Kevin Kosik
Citation
Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko; English versions by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Anthony Kahn, “Flowers and Bullets & Freedom to Kill,” Book Club of California, accessed April 26, 2024, https://bccbooks.omeka.net/items/show/48.