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This conflict prevented Sedakova's books from being published in the U.S.S.R. Instead, they were labeled as being too \"esoteric,\" \"religious,\" and \"bookish.\" Until 1990, the only way her collections were available in Russian were in samizdat, hand-written copies, which circulated from reader to reader, building her reputation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the 1990s, the situation changed dramatically, and now Sedakova has published twenty-seven volumes of verse, prose, translations, and scholarly research, although her work is woefully underrepresented in English translation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn Praise of Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique introduction to her oeuvre, bringing together a memoir-essay written about her work, and two poetic works: \"Tristan and Isolde,\" which is one of her most mysterious long poems, and \"Old Songs,\" a sequence of deceptively simple poems that mix folk and Biblical wisdom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOlga Sedakova\u003c\/b\u003e wrote prolifically during the 1970s, but since her complex, allusive style of poetry--generally labeled as neo-modernist or meta-realism--didn't fit the prescribed official aesthetics, it wasn't available until the late 1980s.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eCaroline Clark\u003c\/b\u003e is a British poet and essayist. 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