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    • Modern Poetry in Translation Magazine

      Helga Olshvang: Blue is White

      By Ainsley Morse

      Helga Olshvang: Blue is White

      “Olshvang is simultaneously a full-blown Russian poet in the refined Russian Modernist tradition, evoking Boris Pasternak in her attention to everyday objects infused with emotional intensity, and Anna Akhmatova – incidentally the subject of one of her films – in her subtle but profound evocation of the experience of being a woman.”

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    • The Plume Anthology of Poetry

      Blue as White (The Book of Margins)

      By Dana Golin

      Blue as White (The Book of Margins)

      “This author, writing in free verse, employing an extended syntactic arc and disjointed, loosely connected grammatical fragments rather than formal sentences, seems to proceed by intuitive, associative leaps, like a creeping vine that must find an immediate foothold before it can choose the vector for its movement, and footing for its subsequent segment. “

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