Contemporary female lyric poetry as a triptych. Reading poetry collections by A. Karimova, K. Aksyonova, and V. Zabortseva

Abstract

The article is concerned with collections of poetry authored by contemporary female poets A. Karimova, K. Aksyonova, and V. Zabortseva. The scholars argue that the poets employ the codes of three cultural and historical eras of Russia’s development: the late Soviet period with its idea of cosmism (Karimova); the 1990s, marked by the collapse of earlier cosmos (Aksyonova); and the 2020s, during which an era of civil unrest was supplanted by a time of development based on classical Russian cultural forms and mounting progress. The scholars trace manifestations of the typical features of a given period in literary poetics and world perception by the lyric heroines, while noting different uses of similar images and concepts by the three poets. The article also details the critical reception of the I-heroines’ lyric poetry in comparison to other poets of the same generation.