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Russia's poets hold a special place in Russian culture, perhaps revealing more about their country than poets within any other nation. In this unique and wide-ranging collection of writings on poets and poetic trends in Russia, contributors from the United States, Britain, and Russia examine the place of poetry in Russian culture. Through a variety of critical approaches, these scholars, translators, and poets consider a broad cross section of Russian poets, from Pushkin to Brodsky, Shvarts, and Kibirov.
Introduction: Myths and Paradoxes of the Russian Poet / Stephanie Sandler -- Pt. I. Vocations of the Russian Poet. 1. Reading Russian Pastoral: Zhukovsky's Translation of Gray's Elegy / Catherine Ciepiela. 2. Where to Begin: Pushkin, Derzhavin, and the Poetic Use of Filiation / David M. Bethea. 3. The Vacancy of a Poet: Toward a Poetology of Pasternak / Olga Sedakova. 4. The Iron Age of the 1930s: The Centennial Return in Mandelstam / Boris Gasparov. 5. Nina Iskrenko: The Postmodern Poet and Her Few Words / Vitaly Chernetsky -- Pt. II. Reconsiderations of the Silver Age. 6. Reluctant Sibyls: Gender and Intertextuality in the Work of Adelaida Gertsyk and Vera Merkureva / Catriona Kelly. 7. Annensky's Anguished Muse / Nancy Pollak. 8. Reflections in the Mirror: Iconographic Homoeroticism in Russian Silver Age Poetics / Luc Beaudoin. 9. A Footnote to a Commentary / Joseph Brodsky. 10. Whitman, Mayakovsky, and the Body Politic / Clare Cavanagh.
Pt. III. Rhetorical Readings: Image, Trope, Genre. 11. Pushkin's Wanderer Fantasies / Andrew Kahn. 12. "Long Growing Dark": Joseph Brodsky's "August" / G. S. Smith. 13. Cultural Memory and Self-Expression in a Poem by Elena Shvarts / Stephanie Sandler. 14. The Youngest Archaists: Kutik, Sedakova, Kibirov, Parshchikov / Andrew Wachtel.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-356) and index.