Abstract
The article examines the history of the creation and publication of Joseph Brodsky’s poem “Letter to the Oasis,” which was originally addressed to the poet A.S. Kushner, but at the request of the addressee the initials were removed. Along with the reconstruction of the historical and literary contexts, the author offers a line-by-line commentary on Brodsky’s poem, showing its structure and intertextual connections.
| Translated title of the contribution | Where is the Mattress's Cowgirl Riding? On Joseph Brodsky and Alexander Kushner's Controversy around “Letter to an Oasis” |
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| Original language | Russian |
| Pages (from-to) | 284-310 |
| Number of pages | 27 |
| Journal | Novoe Literaturnoe Obozrenie |
| Issue number | 192 |
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| State | Published - 2025 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Cultural Studies
- Literature and Literary Theory
Keywords
- Akhmatova’s Orphans
- literary polemics
- poet and power
- poetry