In Praise of Poetry
At an early age, Olga Sedakova began writing poetry and, by the 1970s, had joined up with other members of Russia's underground second culture to create a vibrant literary movement-one that was at odds with the political powers that be. This conflict prevented Sedakova's books from being published in the U.S.S.R. Instead, they were labeled as being too esoteric, religious, and bookish. Until 1990, the only way her collections were available in Russian were in samizdat, hand-written copies, which circulated from reader to reader, building her reputation.In the 1990s, the situation changed dramatically, and now Sedakova has published twenty-sev…
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Weitere Autoren: Sandler, Stephanie (Übers.) / Golubovich, Ksenia (Übers.) / Clark, Caroline (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-940953-06-9
- EAN: 9781940953069
- Produktnummer: 22594551
- Verlag: Open Letter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 237 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 463 KB
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Olga Sedakova wrote prolifically during the 1970s, but since her complex, allusive style of poetry-generally labeled as neo-modernist or meta-realism-didn't fit the prescribed official aesthetics, it wasn't available until the late 1980s.Caroline Clark is a British poet and essayist. She holds degrees from the Universities of Sussex and Exeter, and her dissertation was on the poetics of Osip Mandelstam and Paul Celan.Ksenia Golubovich is a Russian writer, philologist, editor, and translator living in Moscow. She has held a writer's residency at the Iowa International Writing Program, and writes for the Novaya Gazeta newspaper in Moscow.Stephanie Sandler teaches Russian Literature in the Slavic Department at Harvard University. She co-translated Elena Fanailova's The Russian Version, which won the Best Translated Book Award for poetry in 2010.
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