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| | Jacket 25 - Ilya Kaminsky reviews "Fulcrum", Number 2, 2003 |
 | | Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, edited by two Russian expatriates and talented poets in their own right, Phillip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich, is now in its second year of publication in Cambridge, Massachussetts. |
 | | The editors’ foreignness — or, to put it in other words, their insight into another way of looking at things — is a stroke of luck for us readers, for it offers an unprecedented project in American letters today — think of, in an earlier period, the Nabokov-Wilson correspondence. |
 | | Instead of literary wars, Fulcrum’s editors devote their attention to the concerns of the craft: the collection is centered around the issue of “necessity of thought” emphasizing its philosophical and lyrical (Someone once told / me (might have been / me) the universe’s / no meaning, but we / have to make one.”) importance. |
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