Holy Winter

by Maria Stepanova

The outbreak of Covid-19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor--the world had withdrawn from her, time had "gone numb." When she awoke from this state, she began to read Ovid, and the shock of the pandemic dissolved into the voices and metaphors of a transformative, epochal experience. Her book-length poem Holy Winter, written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, speaks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811235149
• ISBN13: 9780811235143
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 80 Pages