SOURCE: Ketchian, Sonia. “The Wonder of Nature and Art: Bella Axmadulina's Secret. New Studies in Russian Language and Literature, pp. 185-98. Columbus, Ohio: Slavica Publishers, Inc., 1986.
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 to the Secret,” in Sonia I. Ketchian, The Poetic Craft of Bella Akhmadulina, University Park: Pennsylvania State University, 1993.
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