Beyond the Limit Tapa dura - 1987

Northwestern University Press, 1987. Fine in fine dust jacket. Translated from the Russian by Frances Padoor Brent and Carol J. Arvins. A cycle of 47 poems written during the author's imprisonment for agitating against the Soviet regime. Printed in facing pages of Russian and English. 121 pages including notes.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover.

Translation by Frances Padoor Brent and Carol J. Avins. Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is bound in black cloth, with stamped silver lettering to spine. Book displays very light shelwear. Binding is sound. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket exhibits mild wear and is now in mylar cover. Bilingual in Russian and English. xvii/121 pages.""Beyond the Limit" is a cycle of forty-seven poems written during the first portion of Irina Ratushinskaya's term in the "strict regime" camp for women political prisoners at Barashevo in Mordovia. The poems bear witness to the disequilibrium of history while they record a resilient interior life. On 5 March 1983, Irina Ratushinskaya was sentenced to seven years of hard labor to be followed by five years of internal exile for "agitation carried on for the purpose of subverting the Soviet regime." Ratushinskaya was twenty-nine years old. During the years in the camp, despite deteriorating health, hunger strikes, and continual punishments in cold… Leer más

Brand: Northwestern University Press, 1987-05-01. First Edition. hardcover. Used: Good.

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boston: Little Brown, 1987. Hardcover. Near Fine/Fine. First American edition. 121pp. Translated by Frances Padorr Brent and Carol J. Avins. Modestly foxed top edge, near fine in a fine dustwrapper. Poetry.

1987. (Russian Edition) Northwestern University Press, 1987. 8°. XVII, 121 pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective collector's mylar. Excellent, Near fine condition. [Cornwell 691] Irina Borisovna Ratushinskaya (Russian: 4 March 1954, Odessa – 5 July 2017, Moscow) was a Russian Soviet dissident, poet and writer. Irina Ratushinskaya was born in Odessa, Ukraine. Her father was Boris Leonidovich, an engineer, and her mother was Irina Valentinovna Ratushinsky, a teacher of Russian literature. She has one sister. Her mother's family originated from Poland, and her great-grandfather was deported to Siberia shortly after the January Uprising, a Polish uprising against forced conscription in the Russian Army in 1863. Ratushinskaya was educated at Odessa University and graduated with a master's degree in physics in 1976. Before her graduation she taught at a primary school in Odessa from 1975–78. On September 17, 1982, Ratushinskaya was arrested for anti-Soviet agitation. In April… Leer más

Northwestern University Press, 1987-05-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!