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03/06/2024

Friends, Cicada Press needs a new website. Can you or anyone you know help us build a simple, but functional site?

10/14/2022

Stephanie Sandler wrote a beautiful review of Leonid Schwab's "Everbrning Pilot" (Cicada Press, 2022). It is available through our website www.cicadapress.net

Stephanie Sandler sorts through Russian poet Leonid Schwab’s collection “Everburning Pilot,” edited by Alexander Spektor, Anton Tenser, and Sibelan Forrester, and translated by many hands....

01/10/2022

Cicada is releasing a bi-lingual book of poetry by Leonid Schwab. With an introduction by Maria Stepanova. Edited by Alex Spektor, Anton Tenser, and Sibelan Forrester. The cover is by Gleb Simonov.

The official release date is not until February, 20. If you are interested in receiving a review copy, please message Anastasiya Osipova.

03/06/2021

Yusupova serves us the daily bread of deadly dog bites in the forest and abrupt head-bashings in the entryway and the casual dismissal of an eager new face at the beautifully named the Center for Gender Problems. For what Yusupova knows is that gender is always a problem, not least because it is the center where there is no center. And so is the everyday cause of everyday death.

Steps on the red moss not knowing that it is blood

This collection is about such knowledge and knowing, an ongoing transition from not knowing to knowing to knowing too much to knowing too little to knowing the impossibility of knowing at all — a truly poetic philosophy. Not one of hope or even compassion, but a far rarer composition: capacity. Which is not considered as a substance but should be.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/short-takes/terror-firma-lida-yusupovas-scar-know/?fbclid=IwAR0ToZ-v0aeGav_pNptdWPfKQr3w20O27fiF8ahIUN7bGgYDrK1MwF99R5Q

Life is ill-advised. This is funny, in the way of great tragedy, and the other way around. Things happen, never for a reason, rarely for a lesson. And yet we go on, tailoring our weak understandings to fit the brute contingencies of our fleshy circumstance, preferably with a moral set precociously b...

03/04/2021

Join us for a day of discussing and celebrating Lida Yusupova's poetry.

https://fb.me/e/15E4dTQXM

02/15/2021

Ура, ура, Лиде Юсуповой присудили премию "Вавилона"!
Напоминаем, что новое билингвальное издание ее работ можно заказать у нас здесь: https://www.cicadapress.net/titles/
https://www.colta.ru/news/26620-prisuzhdena-premiya-vavilona?fbclid=IwAR14nSr74WBAZ9GGDXduddjHWgX5qcp5UUjs9Upk6Mw1ZpDUFm0U5e-diXs

13 февраля был назван первый лауреат новой премии в области русской поэзии. Премию «Вавилона» получила поэтесса Лида Юсупова.

02/13/2021

A book bumper by Autie Carlisle.

01/13/2021

"Galina [Rymbu] calls Lida [Yusupova] a “guiding light” for many writers and “the first contemporary Russian author to write a poem that speaks openly about sexual violence against women and about her own experience."' -Asymptote

Yusupova's "The Scar We Know" is available for pre-order now.
https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2021/01/07/f-letter-new-russian-feminist-poetry-and-the-verse-as-an-explosion-the-book-as-an-island/?fbclid=IwAR0s1fCjE1z7Rdsj872RAk3s5Dxq5R5BQtdDAL68oNpn4RXviz3XzB-NvqA

We wanted gender politics to enter literature as if it was its native part, as an irreplaceable part of reality.

12/21/2020

https://time.com/5908168/russia-feminist-poets-protest/?fbclid=IwAR3GChEH11N075hhogvi64_CwjRv6kk-E1pUBBELGIt4dFfU6sJMC4dwvRM

A new generation of Russian women are using poetry to challenge norms

12/13/2020

Our bi-lingual edition of Lida Yusupova's "The Scar We Know" (edited by Ainsley Morse and with translations by Hilah Kohen, Madeline Kinkel, and others) is now available for pre-order!

Many thanks to Gleb Simonov for the beautiful cover, Matvei Yankelevich for all-around help and support, and Oksana Vasyakina for her introduction.

https://www.cicadapress.net/products-page/books/lida-yusupova-the-scar-we-know/