These translations have been much admired. Ellendea Proffer
wrote in the New York Times Book Review that they are certainly . . . the best translations available (a compliment that ignores the dearth of competition)....
Textual Production
Elaine Feinstein
EF
's radio plays are more numerous still: Echoes, 1980, A Late Spring, 1982, A Day Off, 1983 (from the novella of that name from Storm Jameson
's Women against Men...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text
Ketaki Kushari Dyson
The essays in this volume date from 1977-1985 and cover a wide range of topics, including an autobiographical essay on Dyson's path to becoming a poet, an essay on Jesus
, and a critical look...
Textual Features
Gillian Allnutt
In the poemWhy NotGA
ponders the relationship between women's writing, the ambiguity of language, and the seduction of suicide. The speaker (presumably GA
) imaginatively places herself in the subject-position of Virginia Woolf
Author summary
Anna Akhmatova
Writing through the turmoils of the twentieth century, AA
(Anna of all the Russias as she was solemnly called by her fellow poet Marina Tsvetaeva
) was one of the greatest poets of Russian...
