SHKAPSKAIA, Mariia Mikhailovna.

Mater Dolorosa.

St. Petersburg, [Neopalimaia Kupina], 1921. 12mo, pp. 36; some light browning to first and last leaves, but a very good copy in the original stiff paper wrappers and printed paper dust-jacket, a few small chips, tear to foot of rear cover near spine, old stamps to inside rear cover. First edition of Maria Shkapskaia’s first book of poems. ‘You have taken to a new and very wide road. No woman before you has spoken so truthfully and in so firm a voice of her significance as a woman’ (Gorky to Shkapskaia, January 1923).Maria Shkapskaia (1891–1952), ‘a sophisticated intellectual with a degree from the University of Toulouse, published several volumes of highly idiosyncratic poetry devoted almost entirely to a woman’s experience as a lover, wife, and mother. Sexuality, conception, abortion, pregnancy, giving birth, and the death of a child are her themes, always approached in the presence of God: how does a mother face God when He has allowed her child to die? Shkapskaya deals with her womanhood concretely, even carnally, yet also with a deep spirituality’ (Terras). After 1925 Shkapskaia’s poems were suppressed, and she was reduced to writing Five-Year Plan reportage; her creative work was rediscovered in the West only in the 1970s.Tarasenkov, p. 417. OCLC records copies at the School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Harvard, Cornell, and Ohio State; there is also a copy at the British Library.

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