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For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and grief
From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing and at times sublime memories of her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her past, the narrator of Oksana Vasyakina’s autobiographical novel meditates on queerness, death, and love and finds new words for understanding her relationship with her mother, her country, her sexuality, and her identity as an artist.
A sensual, whip-smart account of the complicated dynamics of queer life in present-day Siberia and Moscow, Wound is also in conversation with feminist thinkers and artists, including Susan Sontag, Louise Bourgeois, and Monique Wittig, locating Vasyakina’s work in a rich and exciting international literary tradition.
For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity...
For fans of Maggie Nelson and Eileen Myles, the lyrical and deeply moving story of a young queer woman’s journey across Russia to inter her mother’s ashes and to understand her sexuality, femininity, and grief
From one of Russia’s most exciting new voices, Wound follows a young lesbian poet on a journey from Moscow to her hometown in Siberia, where she has promised to bury her mother’s ashes. Woven throughout this fascinating travel narrative are harrowing and at times sublime memories of her childhood and her sexual and artistic awakening. As she carefully documents her grief and interrogates her past, the narrator of Oksana Vasyakina’s autobiographical novel meditates on queerness, death, and love and finds new words for understanding her relationship with her mother, her country, her sexuality, and her identity as an artist.
A sensual, whip-smart account of the complicated dynamics of queer life in present-day Siberia and Moscow, Wound is also in conversation with feminist thinkers and artists, including Susan Sontag, Louise Bourgeois, and Monique Wittig, locating Vasyakina’s work in a rich and exciting international literary tradition.
Advance Praise
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WOUND
“Acutely necessary. Wound is a bold, human, powerful meditation on how a language of love and death takes shape.”
—Polina Barskova, author of Living Pictures
“In Vasyakina’s magnificent Wound, a woman goes on a pilgrimage to bury her mother’s ashes in the small Siberian town of her birth, a place where lesbians ‘didn’t exist.'’Urn under arm, the prodigal daughter returns: a queer in Putin’s Russia, a poet who first glimpses herself whole—“soft and agape”—in the gaze of her girlfriend. The narration pivots through time in Elina Alter’s resonant translation. ‘Poetry is my method of forgetting in such a way that what I forget becomes known to others.’ I remain awed by the expansive emotional geography of this book, which reads like a novel yet tastes like a poem.”
—Alina Stefanescu, author of Dor
ADVANCE PRAISE FOR WOUND
“Acutely necessary. Wound is a bold, human, powerful meditation on how a language of love and death takes shape.”
“Acutely necessary. Wound is a bold, human, powerful meditation on how a language of love and death takes shape.”
—Polina Barskova, author of Living Pictures
“In Vasyakina’s magnificent Wound, a woman goes on a pilgrimage to bury her mother’s ashes in the small Siberian town of her birth, a place where lesbians ‘didn’t exist.'’Urn under arm, the prodigal daughter returns: a queer in Putin’s Russia, a poet who first glimpses herself whole—“soft and agape”—in the gaze of her girlfriend. The narration pivots through time in Elina Alter’s resonant translation. ‘Poetry is my method of forgetting in such a way that what I forget becomes known to others.’ I remain awed by the expansive emotional geography of this book, which reads like a novel yet tastes like a poem.”
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