possibly the only other non-Russian poet comparably preoccupied with Mandelstam was Paul Celan.
note "Magdalen" reference in Voronezh poem quoted ("For Natasha Shtempel").
mandel (almond), magdala, amygdala (seat of memory in the brain?)
almond tree : ancient emblem of Jewish people
mandelstam - "almond branch" (blooms in January)
little tree (cf. Forth of July, various places, & this from Island Road)
David (poet-king), Messiah : "the branch"
2.04.2004
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