Maria Stepanova

Maria Stepanova's poetics, both contemporary and timeless, challenge the notion of a crisis in traditional prosody. She experiments with the authenticity of the author's utterance, applying personal idiosyncrasies to a poetic persona, which serves as an act of will to break through to the subject. Stepanova's poetic language is highly distinctive, with word forms undergoing deformation on every level, revealing new, both actual and potential, senses.