In Praise of Poetry

These three pieces-a memoir-essay and two long poems-are the first from this contemporary Russian poet to appear in English.

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.

Product details

• Authors: Olga Sedakova
• Assisted by: Caroline Clark (Translation), Ksenia Golubovich (Translation), Stephanie Sandler (Translation)
• Publisher: Open Letter
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.12.2014
• EAN: 9781940953021
• ISBN: 978-1-940953-02-1
• No. of pages: 156
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 217 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 327 g
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies