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The Zoo in Winter

Selected Poems

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Pub Date Feb 22 2011 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012

Melville House Publishing | Melville House

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Opulent, playful, and sensual, Polina Barskova's poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under forty. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova's work remains unmistakably contemporary, at once classic and edgy--always fresh, new and even startling. A major English-language event, The Zoo in Winter collects poems from seven earlier books as well as from her more recent work. It is a remarkable menagerie of poems, of a strange and intoxicating beauty.

Opulent, playful, and sensual, Polina Barskova's poems have earned her a reputation as the finest Russian poet under forty. While steeped in Russian and classical culture, Barskova's work remains...

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Advance Praise

"Lavishly mordant, magically bitter, erotically sardonic"
--Alicia Ostriker

"Polina Barskova's work emerges from an intelligence and a sensibility in which poetry matters, and not only to poets. These poems arise from a confluence of history and lyric: fraught with danger but vibrant with inquiry."
--Marilyn Hacker

"Lavishly mordant, magically bitter, erotically sardonic"
--Alicia Ostriker

"Polina Barskova's work emerges from an intelligence and a sensibility in which poetry matters, and not only to poets...

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EDITION Other Format
ISBN 9781935554264
PRICE $15.00 (USD)
PAGES 176

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