Poems And Elegies

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An intensely philosophical and religious poet, Olga Sedakova writes of nature, music, and the inner, spiritual life. As one of the preservers of traditional Russian culture, she stands in stark contrast to the rampant commercialization in contemporary Russian life, instead tracing her poetic roots back to the early avant-garde movements of pre-revolutionary Russia. For that stance, she endured years of censorship and silencing during the Soviet regime her poems distributed by hand in mimeographed copies or by word of mouth. This volume introduces to an English-speaking audience an extensive selection of poems by one of Russia's most distinguished lyric poets writing today.

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Slava I. Yastremski is an Associate Professor of Russian at Bucknell University, and the author of numerous articles on Russian poetry of the twentieth century. He has translated four previous books. Olga Sedakova is one of the most respected and internationally recognized poets of contemporary Russia. She has received several prestigious European awards for her poetry, which have been translated into a number of languages, including two previous books in English.