Six Years Later, Epitaph for a Centaur

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Russian-born poet Joseph Brodsky wrote about the centaur as a Cold War self-portrait: a divided global refugee, created by a geopolitics of shifting borders and cultures.

Theater of War artistic director Bryan Doerries, authors, scholars and historian Joseph Ellis join host Elisa New to read two poems by Brodsky: one about love; the other, exile.

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