MPT 20: Contemporary Russian Women Poets. Paul StephensonRussian Women Poets: Bella Akhmadulina, Liana Alaverdova, Vera Anserova, Mariya Avvakumova, Polina Barskova, Tatyana Bek, Larisa Berezovchuk, Marina Boroditskaya, Ekaterina Boyarskikh, Vera Chizhevskaya, Svetlanha Chulkova, Svetlana Den'gina, Regina Derieva, Marina Dolia, Irina Ermakova, Galina Ermoshina, Zoya Ezrokhi, Elena Fanailova, Nina Gabrielian, Marina Galina, Anna Glazova, Natalya Gorbanevskaya, Nina Gorlanova, Lydiya Grigoryeva, Faina
towards the train whose grab-rails are singing
Hikayati Sharhun Yatool [My Story is Too Long to Tell]
Mohammed Khudayyir
Linda France
The cover artist is Zena Assi from Lebanon
• Anzhelina Polonskaya
+ Drafts of a Shcherbina translation by Derek Walcott
her body stiff like one about to fall
being published by AUC Press
And sing your breasts belonging to a goddess
that something was wrong with us
a rush of energy and a sensitivity
