The Voice Over

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE

Maria Stepanova’s poems included in this volume come from the following books of poetry: O bliznetsakh (On twins, 2001), Tut-svet (The here-world, 2001), Pesni severnykh iuzhan (Songs of the northern southerners, 2001), Schast’e (Happiness, 2003), Fiziologiia i malaia istoriia (Physiology and private history, 2005), Lirika, golos (The lyric, the voice, 2010), Kireevskii (Kireevsky, 2012), and Spolia (2015). With the exception of Spolia, these collections are available on the website of the Vavilon Project: http://www.vavilon.ru/texts/stepanova0.html.

The cycle O, from which one poem is included, appeared in Stikhi i proza v odnom tome (Poetry and prose in one volume, 2010). This volume of collected poems, among other works, reproduces Songs of the Northern Southerners and Physiology and Private History from the above list. Stepanova’s more recent volume of collected poems, Protiv liriki (Against lyric, 2017), reproduces all other books of poetry from that list.

Essays included in parts II and IV of this volume come from the collection Odin, ne odin, ne ia (Alone, not alone, not me, 2014). The first three essays included in part III were published together in Tri stat’i po povodu (Three essays regarding, 2015); the last essay in that part appeared on Colta.ru on November 11, 2016.

Seven of the included essays were also reprinted in Stepanova’s most recent collection of essays, Protiv neliubvi (Against non-love, 2019): these are the first and third essays in part III and all but the last essay in part IV.