The Boston Globe, February 17th, 1990
"I was famous, then I was infamous, and I am convinced that essentially it's the same thing." So wrote the late Anna Akhmatova, considered by some the greatest Russian poet of the 20th century. She will be honored Sunday by the Poets' Theater at Sanders Theater, Cambridge. Akhmatova, who was born in 1889, was internationally recognized as one of the century's great poets when she died in 1966. "In the last four years, she achieved national recognition. She was always well-known, loved and revered by her readers, who couldn't express themselves because of fear. She was even loved by the hacks,"...
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