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Downloaded from http://read.dukeupress.edu/qui-parle/article-pdf/31/1/99/1607192/99kernan.pdf by DEEPDYVE INC user on 12 August 2022 Poems by Oksana Vasyakina and Elena Kostyleva translated by helena kernan Oksana Vasyakina and Elena Kostyleva are contemporary Russian poetesses who contribute to Ф-письмо (F Letter), a digital platform that publishes, critiques, and celebrates feminist writing. Their work is testament to a generational change in Russophone poetry, which has seen a decline in the certainties and declamatory style of the pre- vious generation in favor of all-embracing polyphony and linguistic experimentation, an ethical commitment to decolonization and left- ist politics, and a strong focus on diverse spectrums of gender and sexuality. Vasyakina’s “Girl” is the latest in a series of poems that trace the trials, tribulations, joys, and hopes of the author’s own biography. The poem was published not long after her debut novel, Рана (Wound), a hybrid text that includes essays, poems, and novelistic plot devices and enters into dialogue with several female thinkers, both past and present. Staged as an intimate conversation between lesbian partners, “Girl” imagines two women having a biological baby together: the physical sensations of extracting spinal cells, implanting an embryo, qui parle Vol. 31, No. 1, June 2022 doi 10.1215/10418385-9669503 © 2022
Qui Parle – Duke University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2022
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