Places

Where the Poems Are

Two poets, born a year and a hundred miles apart, who never met until New York. Each place holds the poems written there, or about it.

WESTEASTNOT TO SCALE · POSITIONS ARE RELATIVEDROPKIN · 1912LEIVICK · 1913New YorkDROPKIN 1912 · LEIVICK 1913BobruiskDROPKIN · BORN 1887Ihumen, near MinskLEIVICK · BORN 1888SiberiaEXILE · ESCAPED 1913
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Four places
01

New York

ניו־יאָרק

Where both arrive, and where nearly everything here was written.

02

Bobruisk

באָברויסק

Celia Dropkin, born 1887. Left for New York in 1912.

No poems pinned here yet.

03

Ihumen, near Minsk

[Yiddish name to confirm]

H. Leivick, born Leyvik Halpern, 1888.

04

Siberia

סיביר

Leivick’s exile. Sentenced for life, escaped in 1913.

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