The Voice Over

Preface
Bibliographic Note
Introduction. "Speaking in Voices": On Maria Stepanova's Literary Creation, by Irina Shevelenko
Part I: The Here-World
A Gypski, a Polsk I, a Jewski, a Russki
The North of sleep. Head's in a pillow cradle
Ahoy! Beyond the azure's tempest
Adieu, until one branched floor higher
For you, but the voice of the straitened Muse
The Bride
The Pilot
The morning sun arises in the morning
As Danaë, prone in the incarce-chamber
It is certainly time to stop
Even bluer than the toilet tiles
(a birthday on the train)
(half an hour on foot)
July 3rd, 2004
The Women's Locker Room at "Planet Fitness"
Sarah on the Barricades
The Desire to Be a Rib
Bus Stop: Israelitischer Friedhof
Zoo, Woman, Monkey
Part II: Displaced Person
And a vo-vo-voice arose
In the festive sky, impassivable, tinfurled
Saturday and Sunday burn like stars
In every little park, in every little square
Mom-pop didn't know him
Mama, what janitor
A train rides down entire Russia
Ordnance was weeping in the open
The A went past, Tram-Traum
Well I don't sing Kupitye papirosn
The light swells and pulses at the garden gate
In the village, in the field, in the forest
A deer, a deer stood in that place
The last songs are assembling
My dear, my little Liberty
There he lies in his new bed, a band of paper round his head
Don't wait for us, my darling
Don't strain your sight
Four Operas
In Unheard-of Simplicity
Displaced Person
Part III: Spolia
Spolia
War of the Beasts and the Animals
Today Before Yesterday (excerpt)
After the Dead Water
Intending to Live
At the Door of a Notnew Age
Part IV: Over Venerable Graves
The Maximum Cost of Living (Marina Tsvetaeva)
Conversations in the Realm of the Dead (Lyubov Shaporina)
What Alice Found There (Alisa Poret)
The Last Hero (Susan Sontag)
From That Side: Notes on Sebald
Over Venerable Graves
Notes