experimental poetry and Soviet children's literature Morse, Ainsley. creator text bibliography ilu Evanston, Ill Northwestern University Press 2021 monographic eng

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xiii, 251 p. : ill. "Word Play focuses on the intertwined fates of children's literature and underground poetry throughout the Soviet period. Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor"-- Introduction. Living Backward: The Childlike in Unofficial Poetry -- Prologue. The Dictionary as a Toy Collection: The Avant-Garde Origins of the Childlike Aesthetic -- Soviet Alphabet: Early Soviet Children's Literature and Experimental Poetics -- Detki v kletke: OBERIU as the First Unofficial Children's Poets -- Playing with Words: Late Soviet Experimental Unofficial Poetry and Children's Literature -- Vsevolod Nekrasov: We All Come from Childhood -- Leonid Aronzon: Naked Child on a Hilltop -- Igor Kholin: Buy Your Kids a Poet -- Oleg Grigoriev: Children! If You Only Knew -- Dmitri Prigov: I Am Fragile and Small -- Epilogue "We can't keep hold of big loud letters": The Childlike Aesthetic in Post-Soviet Poetry. Ainsley Morse. Includes bibliographical references and index. Experimental poetry, Russian 20th century History and criticism Children's literature, Russian 20th century History and criticism PG3064.E94 M67 2021 9780810143272 (pbk.) 0810143275 (pbk.) 9780810143289 (hbk.) 0810143283 (hbk.) 210531 on1191663056