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The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989-2022

Name: The Freest Speech in Russia: Poetry Unbound, 1989-2022
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 9780691169965
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Contributors:

Stephanie Sandler

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Binding:

Paperback

Book Category:

Poetry, Literary Criticism

Book Subcategory:

Russian & Soviet, Poetry, Modern

Book Topic:

20th Century

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Release Date:

2024-11-05

ISBN 13:

9780691169965

Weight:

1.48 lbs

Size:

9.21 x 6.14 x 0.98 inches

Pages:

440

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The first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry and its embrace of freedom--formally, thematically, and spiritually

Since 1989 and the fall of the Berlin Wall, Russian poetry has exuded a powerful awareness of freedom, both aesthetic and political. No longer confined to the cultural underground, poets reacted with immediacy to events in the world. In The Freest Speech in Russia, Stephanie Sandler offers the first English-language study of contemporary Russian poetry, showing how these poems both express and exemplify freedom.

This period was a time of great poetic flourishing for Russian poets, whether they remained in Russia or lived elsewhere. Sandler examines the work of dozens of poets--including Gennady Aygi, Joseph Brodsky, Grigory Dashevsky, Arkady Dragomoshchenko, Mikhail Eremin, Elena Fanailova, Anna Glazova, Elizaveta Mnatsakanova, Olga Sedakova, Elena Shvarts, and Maria Stepanova--analyzing their engagement with politics, performance, music, photography, and religious thought, and with poetic forms small and large. Each chapter investigates one of these topics, with extensive quotation from the poetry, including translations of all texts into English.

In an afterword, Sandler considers poets' responses to Russia's war on Ukraine and the clampdown on free expression. Many have left Russia, but their work persists, and they remain vocal opponents of domestic political oppression and international violence.

About the Author
Stephanie Sandler is the Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. She is the author of Commemorating Pushkin: Russia's Myth of a National Poet and a coauthor of A History of Russian Literature.

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