Seeking Ratushinskaya (Rev)

[Benjamin Sher]

Dear Seelang members:

I am trying to locate Ms. Irinia Ratushinskaya in order to obtain her
copyright permission to publish a certain number of her poems on my web
site. The purpose of this is to open a poetry forum on contemporary (and
perhaps traditional) Russian poetry. My plan is to present interpretive
analyses of poems selected from her oeuvre and invite others to
participate. I have in mind specifically poems from her collection "Ya
dozhivu". Their contributions will be published, as space permits, on this
forum. To do this professionally, I would very much appreciate copyright
permission to publish certain poems in full on my site.

NOTE: My web site is strictly NON-commercial. This is the policy both of
Geocities which sponsors the site as well as my own.

I have no idea how to get in touch with Ms. Ratushinskaya. Could someone
help? Or if you are reading this, Ms. Ratushinskaya, please take a look at
my web site at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1212 (under
construction) and, if you can, please get in touch with me.

In my critical opinion, Ratushinskaya's finest poems rank with the best
lyrics of Mandelshtam, Pasternak, Akhmatova or Tsvetaeva. I would like to
be able to present my case on my web site and invite others to participate.


Thank you so much, everyone, for your attention.

Yours,

Benjamin

Benjamin and Anna Sher
SHER PUBLISHERS
802-C Fern St.
New Orleans, LA 70118
Email: sher07 at bellsouth.net
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/1212