Slutskina, Polina, 1956 (?)
Krasnovsky [Krasnovskii], Ia. [Iakov?], book designer
Moe litso. Mein Gesicht.[Stikhi.] [M., LIA R.Elinina, 2004. 44 p.
(Poeziia.Literaturnyi salon 'Klassiki XXI veka' [Series])
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8 vo, attractive original covers designed by IaKrasnovsky [Ia.Krasnovskii] VERY GOOD. Printed in 200 copies [?] SOLD OUT.

Collection of poems by talented contemporary poet, essayist, graphic artist and member of literary group 'PROSTO' (first book appeared in Moscow in 1996).Polina Slutskina took part in XVIII FREE VERSE POETRY FESTIVAL (2011), one of the oldest All-Russia festivals – Free Verse Poetry Festival, organized by Y. Orlitskiy, D. Kuzmin, Danila Davydov and E. Proschin.

The vers libre Festival is attened by many prominent Russian poets living in exile and in former Soviet Baltic republics.Aside from traditional poetic readings, the Festival includes a seminar on issues pertaining to vers libre, as well as an evening of poets-translators presenting diverse range of free verse poetry in different languages to the audience.

See: Sutcliffe, Benjamin M. The Prose of Life: Russian Women Writers from Khrushchev to Putin (2009), p.82, 'Zhurnal POetov';

From the publisher: 'Both before and after the collapse of the Soviet Union, everyday life and the domestic sphere served as an ideological battleground, simultaneously threatening Stalinist control and challenging traditional Russian gender norms that had been shaken by the Second World War. The Prose of Life examines how six female authors employed images of daily life to depict women's experience in Russian culture from the 1960s to the present. Byt, a term connoting both the everyday and its many petty problems, is an enduring yet neglected theme in Russian literature: its very ordinariness causes many critics to ignore it. Benjamin Sutcliffe's study is the first sustained examination of how and why everyday life as a literary and philosophical category catalyzed the development of post-Stalinist Russian women's prose, particularly since the collapse of the Soviet Union. A focus on the representation of everyday life in women's prose reveals that a first generation of female writers (Natalʹia Baranskaia, Irina Grekova) both legitimated and limited their successors (Liudmila Petrushevskaia, Tatʹiana Tolstaia, Liudmila Ulitskaia, and Svetlana Vasilenko) in their choice of literary topics. The Prose of Life traces the development, and intriguing ruptures, of recent Russian women's prose, becoming a must-read for readers interested in Russian literature and gender studies.'

Provenance: Boris Raskin library and literary archive.