And, one of the major poets of the ironically named Bronze Age (the 60s) was a woman, Bella
Akhmadulina (1937-2010).
During the 1990s, the Russian poetry scene was by and large populated by the last generations of Soviet writers--including some officially recognized Soviet poets, such as Bella
Akhmadulina, but perhaps dominated by poets who had emerged from the underground, like Dmitry Prigov or Olga Sedakova.
Yevtushenko, Andrei Voznesensky, Bella
Akhmadulina and Vasily Aksenov,
Bella
Akhmadulina and "Troeverie" in Vozle Elki (Around the Christmas Tree).
Thus Sinyavsky berates major cultural figures such as
Akhmadulina, Okudzhava and - to Sinyavsky's especial dismay - the historian Academician Likhachev, for going 'over to the authorities', for abandoning Gorbachev after the putsch (p.
Akhmadulina's poetry deserves more serious research than it has so far received, and Sonia Ketchian's study is therefore timely.
Akhmadulina, Bellain full Izabella Akhatovna
Akhmadulina (b.
Our joyful obligation to the future is aesthetically imagined in the words of Russian poet Bella
Akhmadulina (1983, p.
Akhmadulina has generally been regarded as the most brilliant woman poet of the generation of Yevtushenko and Voznesensky.
AKHMADULINA'S BOOK is the thirteenth in a series called Proza poeta (The poet's prose).
In Russia, in the sixties, thousands of people flocked to hear poets like Yevtushenko, Voznesensky and
Akhmadulina. That was par for the course in a country where poetry readings were second only to soccer as entertainment.
During the 1950s and '60s Katayev edited the magazine Yunost ("Youth") and opened its pages to the most promising literary talent of the young generation, including Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Bella
Akhmadulina. In 1966 the literary magazine Novy mir ("New World") printed his Svyatoy kolodets (1967;The Holy Well), a lyrical-philosophical account of dreams experienced while the narrator is under anaesthesia for surgery, clearly reflecting the influence of Marcel Proust, James Joyce, and Franz Kafka.
