Larissa

Miller's poems take the reader on a peculiar voyage of unforgettable, potent,

and arresting images. Through an array of bewildered speakers Miller leaps

from the habitual world into the absurd and places us directly in the

strangeness of existence. Miller's use of language is charged with rapture,

sensuality and irony.

Larissa Miller (b. 1940) is a major Russian poet and essayist, a member of the Union of Russian Writers since 1979, and of Russian PEN since 1992. Author of 23 books of poetry and prose, she was short-listed for the State Prize of the Russian Federation in Literature and Art in 1999, and in 2013 was awarded the Arseny and Andrei Tarkovsky Prize.