The Voice Over

Published with the support of Read Russia, Inc.,

and the Institute of Literary Translation, Russia

Columbia University Press

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EISBN 978-0-231-55168-7

Poems “Bus Stop: Israelitischer Friedhof,” “The light swells and

pulses at the garden gate,” “In the village, in the field, in the

forest,” “A deer, a deer stood in that place,” “The last songs are

assembling,” “Don’t wait for us, my darling,” Spolia, and War of the

Beasts and the Animals from Maria Stepanova, War of the Beasts

and the Animals, translated by Sasha Dugdale (Bloodaxe Books,

2021). Reproduced with permission of Bloodaxe Books, www.

bloodaxebooks.com.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Stepanova, Marii︠a︡, author. | Shevelenko, Irina, editor.

Title: The voice over : poems and essays / Maria Stepanova ; edited

by Irina Shevelenko.

Description: New York : Columbia University Press, [2021] |

Series: Russian library

Identifiers: LCCN 2020044582 (print) | LCCN 2020044583 (ebook) |

ISBN 9780231196161 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |

ISBN 9780231196178 (trade paperback ; acid-free paper) |

ISBN 9780231551687 (ebook)

Subjects: LCGFT: Poetry. | Essays.

Classification: LCC PG3488.T4755 A2 2021 (print) |

LCC PG3488.T4755 (ebook) | DDC 891.71/5–dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020044582

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020044583

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