Clare Cavanagh is associate professor and Herman and Beulah Pearce Miller Research Professor in Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at Northwestern University.
Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for
Criticism
*National Book Critics Circle*
“[This book] opens up a new path, and has no competitors. It
is the new perspective and new context that Cavanagh brings to the
critical discussion of the relationship between personal lyric and
political and social commitment that constitute the book’s novelty
and value.”—Bogdana Carpenter, University of Michigan
*Bogdana Carpenter*
"An outstanding book, the richness and depth of which is difficult
to describe. It combines a huge amount of information with
surprising insights, theoretical breakthroughs and a witty personal
style. . . .will be a must read for many years to come." —Irena
Grudzinska Gross, Princeton University
*Irena Grudzinska Gross*
"Poets of the East and West are not so very different after
all. Crossing the borders between them, Cavanagh brilliantly
catches conversations on poetics and politics that are still going
on. This wonderful book expands the reader's world."— Lawrence
Lipking, author of The Life of the Poet
*Lawrence Lipking*
“There's something absolutely refreshing in Clare Cavanagh's
approach to poetry: she makes us forget the heavy coats of
erudition and the deforming zeal of current ideologies. Clare
Cavanagh is a wonderful literary detective who loves poetry and
understands its complex interactions with history.” — Adam
Zagajewski, University of Chicago
*Adam Zagajewski*
“Clare Cavanagh makes the deep case for the lyric in this
scrupulously researched, convincingly argued, and wide-ranging
comparative study of modern poetry and politics. She writes
from the West but continually turns to modern Russian and Polish
poets as the touchstones for her complex polemic and moving defense
of poetry.”—Edward Hirsch
*Edward Hirsch*
Co-Winner of the 2010 Orbis Book Prize for Polish Studies, given by
the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
*Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies*
"This book can only burnish Clare Cavannagh's credentials as
academic and poet translator...Cavanagh has done justice to her
subject area, leaving one with the feeling that there is little
left to be said."—Belinda Cooke, The Russian Review
*The Russian Review*
"Armed with a mastery of both Russian and Polish scholarship and a
bracing style of argument, Cavanagh's important and enthralling
book illuminates the creative biographies and works of writers who
from about 1917 to the dissolution of the Soviet bloc experienced,
documented, tested, challenged and sometimes survived the
confrontation with the State—or perished when speaking up for
themselves and others." — Andrew Kahn, Times Literary
Supplement
*Times Literary Supplement*
Chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2011 in the Slavic
category by Choice Magazine
*Choice*
". . . an acute and capacious study of politics and poetic
identity, centered on Russia and Poland in the twentieth
century."—Leeore Schnairsohn, Slavic and East European Journal
*Slavic and East European Journal*
"Cavanagh’s study is a brilliant achievement that expands our
knowledge of the subject and our field of vision in general."—Tomas
Venclova, Slavic Review
*Slavic Review*
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