In Praise of Poetry

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Ольга Седакова. In Praise of Poetry

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by Stephanie Sandler

We offer here two poetic cycles: one based on Slavic folk traditions (“Old Songs,” her shimmering sequence that mixes folk and biblical wisdom), and one that emerges from European myths (“Tristan and Isolde,” perhaps her most mysterious long poem). Sedakova’s capacious account in prose of her own poetic development (“In Praise of Poetry”) follows. Alongside these three major texts, we have included our interview with the poet conducted in 2012 and, as a coda, the poetic credo she presented when she was presented with The Masters Translation Prize in Moscow in 2011, awarded by the Masters of Literary Translation Guild. All of these texts appear in English in full for the first time.

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Pray listen to the living!

So when I start my speech, it seems

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