Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova and translated by Sasha Dugdale

This is poetry from Russia.

Holy Winter by Maria Stepanova translated by Sasha Dugdale is published by Norton & Company Limited, W. W.. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2024.0 and has the ISBN of 9.780811235143E12.

Holy Winter, by Maria Stepanova, is a Russian poetry collection from Russia, translated by Sasha Dugdale, published by Norton & Company Limited, W. W. in 2024. It is a Russian collection by Maria Stepanova shaped by cold, sacredness, elegy, and historical reflection. The title gives winter a liturgical charge, as if the season itself were a chapel built from snow, memory, and danger. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.

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