The thread of fate. Ignatova E.A.

Elena Ignatova (b. 1947) - poet, prose writer, memoirist. Born in Leningrad. Since 1975, it was published in Samizdat and publications of Russian abroad. The author of six collections of poems and two books of prose (“Notes about St. Petersburg” and “turning around”). “The thread of fate” is a book that reflects the thirty -year poetic path of Elena Ignatova, from 1966 to 1996.

Her poetry stores the echoes of the “beautiful era” of the Khrushchev thaw, in the atmosphere of which her creative gift was formed and honed, and at the same time, something unprecedentedly original is fraught with. Without turning away from the imperfections of the world, its hostile and even pernicious manifestations, Elena Ignatova chooses the way of the stoic residence of experience full of painful feelings, flaws and compromises.

The vision of the tragic disharmony of life, the coexistence of beauty and cruelty in it initiates the unique imagery of its poems, the style that tends to simultaneously with the poetry of Pushkin, Akhmatova, Mandelstam, the verbal experiments of Dylan Thomas and Sylvia of boards and even with the ancient sound of the liturgy chants.