| Cicada: Selected Poetry & Prose Contributor(s): Voltskaia, Tatiana (Author), Lygo, Emily (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1852247045 ISBN-13: 9781852247041 Publisher: Bloodaxe Books OUR PRICE: $17.06 Product Type: Paperback Published: March 2006 Annotation: Tatiana Voltskaia is one of Russia's leading poets, and a distinguished journalist and essayist. She belongs to the generation who first wrote poetry in the last decade of the USSR, reacting to the profound and disturbing changes of that time to emerge as poets of the new Russia. At the center of her poetry there is a woman trying to escape from her condition of isolation, seeking communication through dialogue, reflections, shadows, echoes, letters, and sex. Many of her poems are set in her native city of St. Petersburg. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | European - General |
| Dewey: 891.714 |
| LCCN: 2006494122 |
| Physical Information: 0.4" H x 5.4" W x 8.4" (0.50 lbs) 144 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Russia |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Tatiana Voltskaia is one of Russia's leading poets, as well as a distinguished journalist and essayist. At the centre of this collection is a woman trying to escape from her condition of isolation, seeking communication through dialogue with the reader - and with others through conversations, reflections, echoes, letters and sex. |