War Of The Beasts And The Animals Av Maria Stepanova

<p>War of the Beasts and the Animals is Russian poet Maria Stepanova''s first full English-language collection. Stepanova is one of Russia''s most innovative and exciting poets and thinkers, and founding editor of Colta.ru, an online independent site which has been compared to Huffington Post in its status and importance. Immensely high-profile in Russia for many years, recognition in the West has followed the publication of her documentary novel <em>In Memory of Memory</em>, first in German translation in 2018 and now with Sasha Dugdale''s English translation - published by Fitzcarraldo - longlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2021. War of the Beasts and the Animals includes her recent long poems of conflict ''Spolia'' and ''War of the Beasts and Animals'', written during the Donbas conflict, as well as a third long poem ''The Body Returns'', commissioned by Hay International Festival in 2018 to commemorate the Centenary of the First World War. In all three long poems Stepan