A lyrical scholarly biography of Sophia Parnok, Russia’s openly lesbian Silver Age poet, weaving her life with newly translated poems.
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A lyrical scholarly biography of Sophia Parnok, Russia’s openly lesbian Silver Age poet, weaving her life with newly translated poems.
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Author of five volumes of poetry and lover of Marina Tsvetaeva, Sophia Parnok was the only openly lesbian voice in Russian poetry during the Silver Age of Russian letters. Parnok, however, was not a political activist, and she had no engagement with the feminism fashionable in young Russian intellectual circles. Yet, from a young age, she deplored all forms of male posturing and condescension and felt alienated from what she called "patriarchal virtues." Parnok's approach to her sexuality was eq...
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Sexual content
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Lesbian relationships and desire discussed biographically; love poems; not graphic erotica
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Openly lesbian poet’s life and same-sex loves are the central focus throughout
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Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Pre-revolutionary and Soviet Russia; censorship; critique of patriarchal norms
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Abuse & suffering
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Hardship under Soviet repression and personal torment referenced biographically
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