TY  - BOOK
AU  - Morse,Ainsley
TI  - Word play: experimental poetry and Soviet children's literature 
T2  - Northwestern University Press studies in Russian literature and theory
SN  - 9780810143272 (pbk.)
AV  - PG3064.E94 M67 2021
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Evanston, Ill.
PB  - Northwestern University Press, 
KW  - Experimental poetry, Russian
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Children's literature, Russian
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - "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 Five case studies feature experimental poets whose unpublished work was not written for children but featured a childlike lyric speaker, diction, form, and humor"--
ER  -