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An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women PoetsEdited by Daniel Weissbort and Valentina Polukhina![]() 10% off eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE!
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Categories: Anthologies, Russian, Translation, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry Publisher: Carcanet Press Available as: Paperback (320 pages) (Pub. Sep 2005) 9781857547412 Out of Stock eBook (Kindle) (Pub. Sep 2005) 9781847776167 £14.95 £13.45 eBook (EPUB) Needs ADE! (Pub. Sep 2005) 9781847776150 £14.95 £13.45 To use the EPUB version, you will need to have Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) installed on your device. You can find out more at https://www.adobe.com/uk/solutions/ebook/digital-editions.html. Please do not purchase this version if you do not have, or are prepared to install, Adobe Digital Editions.
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This anthology, the first of its kind, aims to be comprehensive. Valentina Polukhina surveys the entire scene, reading some 1000 collections and manuscripts, and thoroughly investigating what is accessible on the vibrant Russian literary Internet. The anthology ranges from Moscow to Vladivostok. It includes writers from former Soviet Republics such as the Ukraine. Work by Russian women poets living abroad (in Britain, the United States, Italy, France, Israel, etc) is also represented. Focusing on the middle generation, with major figures like Svetlana Kekova, Vera Pavolova and Tatyana Shcherbina, the anthology includes work by the youngest generation, born after 1970 and virtually unknown outside Russia, as well as senior poets like Bella Akhmadulina and Natalya Gorbanevskaya. Consultants have included scholars, critics and editors, like Dmitry Kuzmin, who created the indispensable poetry website for younger poets, Vavilon. Other consultants in Russia include Olga Sedakova (Moscow State University/MGU), Irina Kovaleva (MGU), and Lyudmila Zbuova (St. Petersburg University). Translators include such distinguished English poets as Elaine Feinstein, Ruth Fainlight, Maura Dooley and Carol Rumens, as well as Russianists and scholars in Britain and the United States such as Peter France (Edinburgh), Catriona Kelly (Oxford), Robert Reid (Keele) and Stephanie Sandler (Harvard). 'Russian poetry is in a healthy state as it leaves the glaciers of Communism for the steamy jungle of western hedonism,' D.M. Thomas declared in Poetry London. The anthology provides a host of insights into post-Soviet reality, from the point of view of women writers who were less compromised by the Soviet system, offering more resistance to the pressures of political conformism.
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Includes poems by: Bella Akhmadulina Polina Barskova Tatyana Bek Natalya Belchenko Larisa Berezovchuk Marina Boroditskaya Ekaterina Boyarskikh Zinaida Bykova Svetlana Dengina Regina Derieva Marina Dolia Irina Ermakova Galina Ermoshina Zoya Ezrokhi Elena Fanailova Nina Gabrielian Mariya Galina Dina Gatina Anna Glazova Linor Goralik Natalya Gorbanevskaya Anna Gorenko Nina Gorlanova Faina Grimberg Elena Ignatova Nina Iskrenko Olga Ivanova Svetlana Ivanova Inna Kabysh Katia Kapovich Svetlana Kekova Marina Khagen Olga Khvostova Mariya Kildibekova Nina Kossman Elena Kostyleva Elena Kostyleva Irina Kovaleva Ella Drylova Marina Kudimova Inna Kulishova Yuliya Kunina Inga Kuznetsova and many more.
'...the abundant, unexpected, Rattle-baggy hullabulloo of contemporary Russian women poets...It has been on my bedside table since it arrived, and I marvel at the work [that has gone] into it - it's so full of information and interest, uniquely representative, full of the jostle and bustle of the living scene.'
Seamus Heaney
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