Tatiana Voltskaia. Cicada. Selected Poetry & Prose

📒 Tatiana Voltskaia is one of Russia's leading poets, and a distinguished journalist and essayist. She belongs to the generation who first wrote poetry in the last decade of the USSR, reacting to the profound and disturbing changes of that time to emerge as poets of the new Russia. At the center of her poetry there is a woman trying to escape from her condition of isolation, seeking communication through dialogue, reflections, shadows, echoes, letters, and sex. Many of her poems are set in her native city of St. Petersburg.