In the following essay, Rydel discusses Akhmadulina’s approach to writing and the inspiration for her poetry.
The subjectivity of Akhmadulina's poetry leads us not to her life, but to...
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In the following essay, Ketchian presents an overview of Akhmadulina’s background and of the influences on her poetry.
The poetry of earth is ceasing never.
—John Keats
Ot str...
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In the following essay, Ketchian explores Akhmadulina’s use of the moon as a theme in her poetry.
Inspiration
I waited Pen in hand For the Muse To visit me …
Meanwhile I penne...
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In the following essay, Rydel explores Akhmadulina’s childhood and sense of place as inspiration for her poetry.
In the first poem of her 1983 collection Tajna (The Secret), Bella Axmadulina...
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In the following essay, Eshelman explores how Akhmadulina’s postmodern sense of self grew out of Axmatova’s poetry.
1. the Minimal Self
The minimal self as I am using it here refers t...
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In the following essay, Feinstein briefly compares Akhmadulina's poetry to that of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva.
Bella Akhmadulina was born in Moscow in 1937, with Italian and Tartar...
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In the following review, Woodbury compares Akhmadulina with her contemporaries and concludes that through time her poetry actually decreased in originality.
Elaine Feinstein, a poet and a novelist ...
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In the following review, Stone offers a positive assessment of Taina: Novye stikhi, giving special praise Akhmadulina's imagery and variety of themes.
A member of the “new wave”...
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In the following essay, Condee explores some of the sources of Akhmadulina’s creative energy.
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In the long poem “Skazka o dožde,” the poet confides that she has taught ...
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In the following essay, Ketchian asserts that the theme of poetic creation is intensified in Tajna: novye stixi. In a slightly altered form this article was republished as chapter 3, “The Key ...
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In the following interview, Akhmadulina discusses the influence of Joseph Brodsky on her work and on Russian poetry as a whole.
[Polukhina]: Bella Akhatovna, it seems to me that you are one of the ...
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In the following interview, Akhmadulina recalls the New Wave movement in Russia and discusses some differences between Russian poets and their American Beat counterparts.
[Thorup]: Bella Akhatovna,...
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In the following review, Bayley briefly discusses Akhmadulina’s poems from The Garden: New and Selected Poetry and Prose and comments on the Russian poets who influenced her.
Bella Akhmaduli...
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Critical Essay by Christine Rydel
