War of the Beasts and the Animals
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War of the Beasts and the Animals by Maria Stepanova
Maria Stepanova is one of Russias most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers. This first full English translation of her poetry includes three recent long poems on conflict, Spolia and War of the Beasts and the Animals, written during the Donbas conflict, and The Body Returns, commemorating the Centenary of the First World War.
Maria Stepanova is a poet, essayist, journalist and the author of ten poetry collections and three books of essays. She has received several Russian and international literary awards (including the prestigious Andrey Bely Prize and Joseph Brodsky Fellowship). Her book In Memory of Memory is a documentary novel. It won Russia's Big Book Award in 2018 and was published in English by New Directions in the US and Fitzcarraldo in the UK in 2021, and longlisted for the International Booker Prize. It has been published in Germany as Nach dem Gedächtnis (Suhrkamp, 2018). Sasha Dugdale's English translation of her collection of poems War of the Beasts and the Animals is published by Bloodaxe in 2021. She is the founder and editor-in-chief of the online independent crowd-sourced journal Colta.ru. Colta.ru covers the cultural, social and political reality of contemporary Russia, reaching audiences of nearly a million visitors a month in the past.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781780375342 |
| ISBN 10 | 1780375344 |
| Title | War of the Beasts and the Animals |
| Author | Maria Stepanova |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloodaxe Books Ltd |
| Year published | 2021-03-25 |
| Number of pages | 128 |
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