An Anthology of Contemporary Russian Women Poets

Daniel Weissbort, Valentina Polukhina, Daniel Weissbort, Valentina Polukhina

• Publisher: Carcanet Poetry
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781857547412
• eBook ISBN:
  9781847776150
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

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.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

VALENTINA POLUKHINA AND DMITRY KUZMIN

Our bibliography does not aim to present a comprehensive list of writings and publications by women poets. It is more specialized and, we feel, more useful than that, because it includes the most significant poets of the old generation and the most outstanding young writers, likely, in general critical estimation, to be central figures in the future.

We have included only publications in Russian and English. To facilitate use, anthologies and periodical publications are listed alphabetically and include the date and place of publication. The publication date of specific poems is not always provided, because some journals are numbered continuously and can be identified not by the date of publication but by the issue number. In most cases the poets date of birth is given, but in a few instances we were unable to provide this information, because poets declined to furnish it. Where two places are given after the name of the poet, the first is the place of birth, and the second is the place of current residence. Where three places are given, the second is the place of residence before the current one.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Additional names and information about some authors were proposed by Ivan Akhmetev, Tatyana Milova, Darya Sukhovey, and Yury Tsaplin.

ANTHOLOGIES

100 let poezii Primorya. Vladivostok, 1998.

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness. Ed. Carolyn Forche. New York/London, 1995.

An Anthology of Russian Women’s Writing, 1977–1992. Ed. Catriona Kelly. Oxford, 1994.

Antologiya “Dvoetochiya.” Ed. Nega Grezina. Jerusalem, 2000.

Antologiya poezii russkogo zarubezhya, 1920–1990. Ed. Evgeny Vitkovsky. Moscow, 1997.

Antologiya russkogo verlibra. Ed. Karen Dzhangirov. Moscow, 1991.

Antologiya: Sovremennaya uralskaya poeziya (1997–2003). Ed. Vitaly Kalpidi. Cheliabinsk, 2003.

Antologiya sovremennoi russkoi poezii tretei volny emigratsii. Ed. Aleksandr Glezer and Sergey Petrunis. Paris/New York, 1986.

Antologiya sovremennoi russkoi poezii Ukrainy. Ed. Mikhail Krasikov. Kharkov, 1998.

The Blue Lagoon Anthology. Ed. Konstantin Kuzminsky and Grigory Kovalev. 9 vols. Newtonville, Mass., 1980–1986.

Child of Europe: A New Anthology of East European Poetry. Ed. Michael March. London, 1990.

Contemporary Russian Poetry. Ed. and tr. Gerald S. Smith. Bloomington and Indianapolis, 1993.

Crossing Centuries: The New Generation in Russian Poetry. Ed. John High et al. Jersey City, N.J., 2000.

Deviat izmerenii: Antologiya noveishei russkoi poezii. Ed. Ilya Kukulin. Moscow, 2004.

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• PREFACE
• INTRODUCTION
• A NOTE ON TRANSLITERATION
• 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
• IRINA KOVALEVA
• ELLA KRYLOVA
• MARINA KUDIMOVA
• INNA KULISHOVA
• YULIYA KUNINA
• INGA KUZNETSOVA
• EVGENIYA LAVUT
• ELENA LAZUTKINA
• INNA LISNIANSKAYA
• SVETA LITVAK
• MARA MALANOVA
• KSENIYA MARENNIKOVA
• OLGA MARTYNOVA
• IRINA MASHINSKAYA
• LARISA MILLER
• TATYANA MILOVA
• STELLA MOROTSKAYA
• RAISA MOROZ
• NEGAR
• OLESIA NIKOLAEVA
• REA NIKONOVA
• VERA PAVLOVA
• ALEKSANDRA PETROVA
• LIUDMILA PETRUSHEVSKAYA
• OLGA POSTNIKOVA
• IRINA RATUSHINSKAYA
• TATYANA RETIVOVA
• TATYANA RIZDVENKO
• OLGA SEDAKOVA
• EVELINA SHATS
• TATYANA SHCHERBINA
• IRINA SHOSTAKOVSKAYA
• ELENA SHVARTS
• Conversation with a Cat
• NATALYA STARODUBTSEVA
• MARIYA STEPANOVA
• DARYA SUKHOVEY
• OLGA SULCHINSKAYA
• ELENA SUNTSOVA
• VITALINA TKHORZHEVSKAYA
• YANA TOKAREVA
• ELENA VASILEVA
• EKATERINA VLASOVA
• TATYANA VOLTSKAYA
• GALINA ZELENINA (GILA LORAN)
• GALI-DANA ZINGER
• OLGA ZONDBERG
• POSTFACE
• APPENDIX
• BIBLIOGRAPHY
• THE POETS
• THE TRANSLATORSTHE TRANSLATORS
• INDEX TO TITLES
• About the Author
• Copyright