Elena Shvarts


Elena Andreyevna Shvarts was a Russian poet.
Born in Leningrad, where she lived her entire life, Shvarts attended the University of Tartu, where her first poems were published in the university newspaper in 1973. After that, however, she did not publish for another decade in her own country; her work began to appear in émigré journals in 1978, and she published two collections of poetry and a novel in verse abroad before a collection was allowed to be published in the Soviet Union, "bringing her immediate recognition both at home and abroad."
Birdsong escaping from a cage is a metaphor running through her work.

Russian

Poems
Prose and essay
Collected Works