for those near Phila, lecture and reading by Russian poet/scholar Polina Barskova

[Sibelan Forrester]

This Friday, January 27, there will be a wonderful lecture and 
(separate) reading by Russian poet Polina Barskova at Bryn Mawr College!

Prof. Polina Barskova <http://www.hampshire.edu/faculty/pbarskova.htm> 
(Professor of Russian Literature at Hampshire College) will be visiting 
to give a talk and a poetry reading, sponsored by the Department of 
Russian, Bryn Mawr College.

Polina is widely recognized as one of the best Russian poets under the 
age of 40, and has authored many well-known books of poetry in Russian, 
some of which have been translated into English.

More information about the events is provided below; the Russian Center 
is located on New Gulph Road across from the Bryn Mawr Centennial Campus 
Center Parking Lot (next to the English House); Bryn Mawr's campus 
address is 101 N. Merion Ave, Bryn Mawr, PA.

We sincerely hope that some translators will be able to make it.


*"Reading/Writing the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)"*
Friday, Jan. 27, 2:30-3:30pm
@ Russian Center conference room @ Bryn Mawr College


*Poetry Reading*
Friday, Jan. 27, 6-7pm
@ Russian Center conference room @ Bryn Mawr College


*Abstract for **"Reading/Writing the Siege of Leningrad (1941-1944)"*

The task of this talk is to present various scenarios of the blokadnik’s 
relationships with reading, with all the contradictions and complexities 
this activity presented.what was the task of reading and the fate of 
books during the Siege of Leningrad? How did the act of reading relate 
to the sense of spatiality extant during the Siege? What sort of 
archaeology of knowledge was implied by the striking renewal of interest 
in rare books in the besieged city? My study considers these questions 
looking at the diaristic discussions of the Siege reading of Tolstoy and 
Dickens, Poe, Proust, and Blok.


*Background for Poetry Reading*

In her homeland of Russia, Polina Barskova is considered a prodigy, one 
of the most accomplished and daring of the younger poets under age of 
40. Born in 1976 in Leningrad, she began publishing poems in journals at 
age nine and released the first of her eight books as a teenager. Her 
two latest books Priamoe upravlenie// Transitive (2010) and Soobsh'enie 
Arielia//Ariel's Address (2011) were shortlisted for the
Andrey Bely poetry prize. She came to the United States at the age of 
twenty to pursue a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, 
having already earned a graduate degree in classical literature at the 
state university in St. Petersburg.
Barskova now lives in Massachusetts with her daughter Frosia and teaches 
at Hampshire College. Recently two volumes of her poetry appeared in 
English translation: This Lamentable city (Tupelo Press, 2010) and Zoo 
in Winter (Melville House, 2011)

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