A comprehensive overview of Olga Sedakova's poetry and thought that will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this poet and, more broadly, in contemporary Russian culture."" - Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and SourcesIntroductionStephanie SandlerWays of Seeing the Poet and Her PoemsIf This Is Not a Garden: Olga Sedakova and the Unfinished Work of CreationBenjamin PaloffThe Poet and Darkness: The Politics of Artistic FormKsenia Golubovich (translated from Russian by Philip Redko)Childhood and Vibrant Stasis in Olga Sedakova’s PoetryEmily R. GrosholzThe Guest at the Door: The Poetry of Olga SedakovaAleksandr Kutyrkin (translated from Russian by Bethany Braley)Constricted Freedom: On Dreams and Rhythms in the Poetry of Olga SedakovaStephanie SandlerTheology, Philosophy, and Modes of KnowingSedakova’s Book of Hours and the Devotional Lyric: Reading “Fifth Stanzas”Andrew KahnThe Art of Change: Adaptation and the Apophatic Tradition in Sedakova’s Chinese JourneyMartha M. F. KellyDisruption of Disruption: The Orthodox Christian Impulse in the Works of Nikolai Zabolotsky and Olga SedakovaSarah PrattThe Topography of the Other World in Olga Sedakova’s PoeticsKetevan Megrelishvili (translated from Russian by Maria Vassileva)The Immanence of Transcendence: Poetic Reflections on the Mystical Aspects of Olga Sedakova’s Lyric PoetryHenrieke Stahl (translated from German by Philipp Penka)Contextual Readings: Languages, Cultures, SourcesStylized Folklore as a Recollection of Europe: Olga Sedakova’s Old Songs and Alexander Pushkin’s Songs of the Western SlavsIlya Kukulin (translated from Russian by Ainsley Morse)The Poetic Anthropology of Olga Sedakova: In Dialogue with Sergei Averintsev and Boris PasternakVera Pozzi (translated from Italian by Gabriella A. Ferrari)The Semantic Vertical: Church Slavonic Heritage and Olga Sedakova’s Poetics of TranslationMaria KhotimskyOlga Sedakova’s Journey through The Book of ChangesNatalia Chernysh (translated from Russian by Sarah Vitali)AfterwordOn Olga Sedakova and Poetic ThinkingDavid BetheaChronologyNotes on ContributorsIndex

A comprehensive overview of Olga Sedakova's poetry and thought that will be an essential resource for anyone interested in this poet and, more broadly, in contemporary Russian culture."" - Barry Scherr, Dartmouth College

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Transliteration and SourcesIntroductionStephanie SandlerWays of Seeing the Poet and Her PoemsIf This Is Not a Garden: Olga Sedakova and the Unfinished Work of CreationBenjamin PaloffThe Poet and Darkness: The Politics of Artistic FormKsenia Golubovich (translated from Russian by Philip Redko)Childhood and Vibrant Stasis in Olga Sedakova’s PoetryEmily R. GrosholzThe Guest at the Door: The Poetry of Olga SedakovaAleksandr Kutyrkin (translated from Russian by Bethany Braley)Constricted Freedom: On Dreams and Rhythms in the Poetry of Olga SedakovaStephanie SandlerTheology, Philosophy, and Modes of KnowingSedakova’s Book of Hours and the Devotional Lyric: Reading “Fifth Stanzas”Andrew KahnThe Art of Change: Adaptation and the Apophatic Tradition in Sedakova’s Chinese JourneyMartha M. F. KellyDisruption of Disruption: The Orthodox Christian Impulse in the Works of Nikolai Zabolotsky and Olga SedakovaSarah PrattThe Topography of the Other World in Olga Sedakova’s PoeticsKetevan Megrelishvili (translated from Russian by Maria Vassileva)The Immanence of Transcendence: Poetic Reflections on the Mystical Aspects of Olga Sedakova’s Lyric PoetryHenrieke Stahl (translated from German by Philipp Penka)Contextual Readings: Languages, Cultures, SourcesStylized Folklore as a Recollection of Europe: Olga Sedakova’s Old Songs and Alexander Pushkin’s Songs of the Western SlavsIlya Kukulin (translated from Russian by Ainsley Morse)The Poetic Anthropology of Olga Sedakova: In Dialogue with Sergei Averintsev and Boris PasternakVera Pozzi (translated from Italian by Gabriella A. Ferrari)The Semantic Vertical: Church Slavonic Heritage and Olga Sedakova’s Poetics of TranslationMaria KhotimskyOlga Sedakova’s Journey through The Book of ChangesNatalia Chernysh (translated from Russian by Sarah Vitali)AfterwordOn Olga Sedakova and Poetic ThinkingDavid BetheaChronologyNotes on ContributorsIndex