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“Pochveniks”—“The Poets of The Soil”: The Geological School of 20th Century Poetry in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia)

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Acknowledgements

I thank A. Shteinberg (a former member of the LITO) for being a treasure trove of information and guiding me to the “poets of the soil” and their poetry; L. Gladkaya, G. Gorbovsky, A. Gorodnitskiy, Y. Ageyeva, V. Britanishsky, Y. Koumpan, and N. Tarutina for kindly giving me permission to translate poetry for this project, and the first three of that list especially – for personal involvement and hospitality. I am also thankful to P. Barskova (Hampshire College), L. Golburt (University of California, Berkeley), and I. Kaminsky (San Diego State University) for valuable comments on the translations and the manuscript. Y. Gordin, N. Korolyova, I. Smolnikova, and N. Akkuratova were of great help to this project in St. Petersburg, Russia. Finally, I thank my wife, I. Razumova (City College of San Francisco), for work on improving photographic images and E. Landa (U.S. Geological Survey) for inspiring this project.

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Belasky, P. (2010). “Pochveniks”—“The Poets of The Soil”: The Geological School of 20th Century Poetry in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia). In: Landa, E., Feller, C. (eds) Soil and Culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2960-7_12

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