Holy Winter LySandra Vuong and the dancing bears swing

and the dancing bears swing to every note

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[Calling a Wolf a Wolf] is a welcome testimony to how the deeply personal can seep into and even shape our national consciousness

Holy Winter LySandra Vuong and the dancing bears swingThe outbreak of Covid 19 cut short Maria Stepanova's 2020 stay in Cambridge. Back in Russia, she spent the ensuing months in a state of torpor the world had withdrawn from her, time had gone numb. When she awoke from this state, she began to read Ovid, and the shock of the pandemic dissolved into the voices and metaphors of a transformative, epochal experience. Her book length poem Holy Winter, written in a frenzy of poetic inspiration, speaks of