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Title

Relocations : three contemporary Russian women poets / edited by Catherine Ciepiela.

Publication

Brookline, MA : Zephyr Press, 2013.

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Additional Authors

• Stepanova, Marii︠a︡.
• Stepanova, Marii︠a︡
• Ciepiela, Catherine
• Khasin, Anna.
• Forrester, Sibelan E. S. (Sibelan Elizabeth S.)
• Barskova, Polina.
• Glazova, Anna.
• Barskova, Polina
• Glazova, Anna
• Khasin, Anna
• Woodberry Poetry Room (Harvard College Library). Collections, repository. poe

Description

xix, 184 pages; 23 cm

Summary

The fall of the Soviet Union released creative energies that have shaped a new Russian poetry. Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova and Maria Stepanova belong to the generation that has lead this epochal transformation. Born in the 1970s, they are old enough to have visceral memories of Soviet life but young enough to move adeptly with the new influences, new media and new choices introduced in the post-Soviet era. Together they represent a contemporary Russia culture that extends beyond national borders: Barskova has emigrated to the US, Glazova is based in Germany and Stepanova is a lifelong Muscovite. Their generation is also the last one raised on Russian modernism, which these poets are renovating from within. While they posses the modernists' erudition, they decline to worship high culture. They have no patience for modernist mythologies of the poet. They have moved beyond the modernists' death-match with totalitarianism to think critically about politics and culture-Barskova as an historian of Petersburg, Glazova as a theorist and translator of Center European writing, and Stepanova as the editor of an independent online journal. They mistrust lyric emotion, confidently leaving behind Marina Tsvetaeva and Anna Akhmatova as poets of female desire while remaining conscious of themselves as writing women. As this gathering of these poets' work signals, women are more influential in Russian poetry than ever before. Book jacket.

Alternative Title

• Three contemporary Russian women poets
• Relocations : 3 contemporary Russian women poets
• 3 contemporary Russian women poets

Subjects

• Translations
• Russian poetry > Translations into English
• Russian poetry > Women authors

Genre/Form

• Translations
• Translations.

Note

• "Selected poems by Polina Barskova, Anna Glazova, Maria Stepanova ; translated from Russian by Catherine Ciepiela, Anna Khasin, Sibelan Forrester"--Title page.

Language (note)

• Russian text with English translation on facing pages.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Polina Barskova -- 1998: 1998 4 -- "Uncompleted people with acne on their temples" 6 -- The Lawyer and the Pearl. A Fable. 10 -- Parents Day 12 -- The Translator I 16 -- Relocation 18 -- Between Poets (A Vaudeville) 24 -- Leningrad Directory of Writers at the Front 1941-45 28 -- Family Outing 46 -- The Translator II 50 -- The Act of Darkness: The Act of Darkness 52 -- Tomatoes and Sunflowers 56 -- Anna Glazova -- "streams would drain to the shallows themselves" 60 -- "woven from the remnants of strings-something" 62 -- "a dark and moist print" 64 -- "they dyed flax" 66 -- "with red diseases they warmed their hands callous" 66 -- Laws 68 -- "a branch nuzzles, a honeysuckle" 74 -- "care stands still behind your back" 76 -- "the work of hands is work of ears of grain" 76 -- "if a caterpillar" 78 -- "the minute lasts" 78 -- "the superior sun will never move" 80 -- "birds woke into oatmeal" 82 -- "the table unfolded and brushed clean" 82 -- "when pores open" 84 -- "the nocturnal partition between you and dark mind" 84 -- "light does not go far in our home" 86 -- "it's like the sun didn't burn but smoldered" 86 -- "an angel doesn't cry even when he sings or hears" 88 -- "a century-old oak is easier to embrace" 90 -- "lightning never leaves" 96 -- "leaves like a grown-up's hands" 96 -- "suppose a green bottom and dull dust" 98 -- "it takes all kinds of thoughts to come of departure" 100 -- "thread your fingers through whole hinges" 102 -- Maria Stepanova -- Several Positions 106 -- Zoo, Woman, Monkey 114 -- About a Driver 128 -- The Wedding of Prince Charles and Camilla Parker-Bowles, Broadcast Live by RTL German TV 130 -- from 20 Sonnets to M 140 -- Sarra on the Barricades 156 -- The Women's Changing Room at "Planet Fitness" 164 -- The Pilot 168.

ISBN

• 9780983297086
• 0983297088

OCLC

• 812258847
• SCSB-10954114

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library