Those Strange Moscow Ladies: Queer Identity in the Poetry of Tsvetaeva and Parnok
Journal: Carolina Digital Repository (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year: 2019

Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok were both Russian poets living during the first half of the twentieth century. Tsvetaeva is considered one of the most prominent poets of the Silver Age, and is recognized for her innovative and complex style. Parnok is far less well-known, by Russians and scholars alike, and the process of re-establishing her as a figure in Russian literary history began just thirty years ago, with the work of scholars that will be discussed below. What connects these two wome