In Praise of Poetry - Softcover

Olga Sedakova

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940953022 ISBN 13: 9781940953021

Publisher: Open Letter, 2015

Synopsis

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., they were only available as hand written books. But now Sedakova has published 27 volumes of verse and prose. This is a unique introduction to her work, bringing together a memoir-essay and two poetic works.

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About the Author

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Open Letter
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1940953022
• ISBN 13: 9781940953021
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 156