Word: kirchstetten
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...poem "A Part of Speech," "I was raised by the cold that, to warm my palm,/ gathered my fingers around a pen." In 1972 the Soviets decided they could get along without a Joseph Brodsky. Against his objections he was shipped to Austria, where W.H. Auden, then living in Kirchstetten, helped the uprooted poet on his way to the U.S. There Brodsky became an ornament on university faculties, a familiar voice on the lecture circuit, a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a recipient of a $208,000 MacArthur Foundation award. Such success...
Wystan Hugh Auden-poet, critic,playwright, and librettist-was born in England but now divides his time between Manhattan and Kirchstetten, Austria...
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