A poem by this author describes a woman who is “sick to her marrow bone” and “utterly alone.” A poem by this author concludes, “For one moment of peace / I would give the peace of the tomb.” The narrator says that “Mary Magdalene beat her breasts and sobbed” in a poem by this author that opens, “No foreign sky protected me.” This author, who was called “half nun, half whore,” wrote a poem in which a woman with “lips blue” asks the narrator, “can you describe this?” At the beginning of one of her poems, this author wrote, “I have lit my treasured candles, / one by one.” The sections “Crucifixion” and “Instead of a Preface” appear in a poem by this author of “Poem Without a Hero” about a woman who waits seventeen months outside of a prison in Leningrad. For 10 points, name this Soviet author of “Requiem.” ■END■
ANSWER: Anna Akhmatova (“ock-MAH-toh-vah”)
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