FRANCISCO S. TATAD
A FULL-LENGTH obituary in The New York Times (April 1, 2017) informs us that Yevgeny Yevtushenko, that gentle and lovable Russian poet, who came to the Philippines in 1973, has died at 83 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where he had been living and teaching for years. He had settled in America after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, where he had become a Member of Parliament and secretary-general of the Union of Soviet Writers in his last years in his native land. He was a world literary figure, but this is not the only reason I want to remember him.