Svetlana Sivak Marina Tsvetaeva Sophia Parnok Richard Burgin Ruth Posselt
List of Publications
  1. BOOKS
    2. Double Concerto. A Real-life Love Story in Letters. Troy, New York: The Troy Bookmakers , 2019, 229 pp.
    Five Hard Pieces. Translations & Readings of Five Long Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva. Troy, NY: The Troy Bookmakers. 2018, 261 pp. Distributed by UMass-Press.
    Performing Life. The Story of Ruth Posselt, American Violinist. Troy, NY: The Troy Bookmakers. 2016, 240 pp. Distributed by UMass-Press.
    Memoralia. The Memoirs of Richard Burgin, Former Concertmaster and Associate Conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Troy, NY: The Troy Bookmakers. 2017, 149 pp. A double book with Richard Burgin. A Life in Verse by Diana Lewis Burgin, Second edition.
    “Ottiagotela” Russkie zhenshchiny za predelami obydennoi zhizni. [“I’ve been de-burdened…” Russian Women Outside the Limits of Everyday Life] St. Petersburg: Inapress. 2004, 223 pp.
    Marina Tsvetaeva i transgressivnyi eros. [Marina Tsvetaeva and Transgressive Eros] St. Petersburg: Inapress, 2000, 237 pp.
    Sofiia Parnok. Zhizn’ i tvorchestvo russkoi Safo. [Sophia Parnok. Life and Works of Russia’s Sappho] St. Petersburg: Inapress, 1999, 511 pp.
    Sophia Parnok. The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho, New York: New York University Press, 1994, 355 pp.
    Richard Burgin. A Life in Verse, Columbus OH: Slavica Publishers, 1989, 209 pp.
  2. TRANSLATIONS
    1. BOOKS (translated by Diana Lewis Burgin and. Katherine T. O'Connor)
      2. The Master and Margarita, by Mikhail Bulgakov, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1995, 367 pp. Paperback by Vintage International, 1996.
      Memoirs of Anastas Mikoyan, Volume I: The Path of Struggle, Madison, CT: Sphinx Press, Inc., 1988, 575 pp.
      Aleksandr Blok As Man and Poet by Kornei Chukovskii, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1982, 156 pp.
      The Invisible Book (Epilogue) by Sergei Dovlatov, Ann Arbor: Ardis, 1979, 134 pp.
    2. POETRY (translated by Diana Lewis. Burgin)
      3. Poetry of Sophia Parnok (Saint Petersburg, 1905-1924). A Rainbow Thread. An Anthology of Queer Jewish Texts from the First Century to 1969. Noam Sienna, ed. Philadelphia: Print-O-Craft, 2019: “I Know;” “Like a small girl;” “That evening;” “Cain;” “Hagar;” “Kitchen-garden.”
      Five Long Poems by Marina Tsvetaeva: Astride a Red Steed; Mountain Poem; Attempting Room; Stairs; Air Poem, (www.dianaburgin.com, 2007).
      Poems by Sophia Parnok and Valentin Parnakh, An Anthology of Jewish-Russian Literature, Maxim Shrayer, ed. Armonk NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2007
      The Berlin Cycle by Marina Tsvetaeva, www.dianaburgin.com, 2007.
      “Stairs” by Marina Tsvetaeva. Boulevard, Vol. 20, Nos. 2&3 Spring 2005, pp. 161-177.
      “Girlfriends: Tsvetaeva to Parnok. Five Poems from Tsvetaeva’s “Podruga” (Girlfriend),” Russian Women, 1698-1917. Experience & Expression. An Anthology of Sources. Compiled by Bisha, Gheith, Holden, and Wagner. Bloomington, IND: Indiana University Press, 2002, pp. 143-148.
      “A Selection of Poems by Sophia Parnok,” Russian Women Writers, Volume 1. NY & London: Garland Publishing Inc., 1999, pp. 563-82.
      “Bio-critical sketch and Five Poems by Sophia Parnok,” Modern Poetry in Translation. New series/No. 10, editor Daniel Weissbrot. London: University of London, 1997, pp. 85-93.
      Ninety two Poems by Sophia Parnok, translated for the first time into English verse, in Sophia Parnok. The Life and Work of Russia's Sappho. New York: New York University Press, 1994.
      Six Poems by Ksenia Nekrasova ("From Childhood," "How Am I To Write My Poems," "The February Snow," "My Room," "I Know," "Day"), Boulevard, Vol. 4/No. 3 & Vol. 5/No. 1, 1990, 105-111.
    3. ARTICLES (translated by Diana Lewis Burgin)
      4. "Nekrasova, Kseniia Aleksandrovna" by S. Poliakova, Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, 458-59.
      "The Poetry of Ksenia Nekrasova" by S.V. Poliakova, Boulevard: Journal of Contemporary Writing, Vol. 4/No. 3 & Vol. 5/No. 1, 1990, 101-104.
      "Rhetoric and Poetics (The Affirmation and Refutation of Opinions in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov)" by V.E. Vetlovskaia, Critical Essays on Dostoevsky, Boston: G.K. Hall, 1986, 223-34.
    4. SHORT STORIES (translated by Diana Lewis Burgin and Katherine T. O'Connor)
      5. "Zinka From the Lamplighter Baths," by Liudmila Shtern, Stories, May/June, 1983.
      "Somebody's Death," by Sergei Dovlatov, The New Yorker, October 19, 1981, 42-52.
  3. ARTICLES, ESSAYS, BOOK CHAPTERS
    4. ”Marina’s Fire – The Alchemy of Astride a Red Steed,” Poetics. Self. Place: Essays in Honor of Lisa Crone. Nicole Boudreau, Sarah Krive, and Catherine O’Neil, eds. Bloomington, IN: Slavica Publishers, 2007, pp. 1-23.
    “Tsvetaeva’s ‘Stairs’ in Life and Poetry,” Boulevard. Spring 2005, Vol. 20, Nos. 2&3 (Published by Saint Louis University), pp. 153-160.
    “Sophia Iakovlevna Parnok 1885-1933,” Dictionary of Literary Biography. Edited by Alexander Ogden and Judith Kalb. 2004.
    “Tsvetaeva’s Three Pushkins,” Two Hundred Years of Pushkin. Volume 1 ‘Pushkin’s Secret’: Russian Writers Reread and Rewrite Pushkin. Edited by Joe Andrew and Robert Reid. Amsterdam – New York: Rodopi, 2003, pp. 91-104.
    “Sophia Parnok and Soviet-Russian Censorship, 1922-1933,” Enemies of the People. The Destruction of Soviet Literary, Theater, and Film Arts in the 1930s. Edited by Katherine Bliss Eaton. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2002, pp. 31-52.
    “Marina Tsvetaeva and Island Variant Eros,” Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization. Edited by Peter I. Barta. London: Routledge, 2001, pp. 221-238.
    Biographical entries on Sophia Parnok and Marina Tsvetaeva, Lesbian Histories and Cultures. Edited by Bonnie Zimmerman. New York and London: Garland Publishing, Inc., 2000, pp. 570-71, 778-79.
    “Sofiia Parnok”. Russian Women Writers. Christine D. Tomei, Ed. NY & London: Garland Publishing, Inc. 1999. Vol. 1, pp 553-582.
    “Rytsar’ na Goloi gore. Opyt interpretatsii ‘Poemy Gory’,” (“Knight on Bare Mountain. A Reading of Tsvetaeva’s ‘Mountain Poem’”), Piataia tsvetaevskaia mezhdunarodnaia nauchno-tematicheskaia konferentsiia: Sbornik dokladov. (Papers of the Fifth International Scholary Conference on Tsvetaeva). Tsvetaeva Museum, Moscow, 1998, pp. 233-244.
    Bio-critical essay on Sofiia Iakovlevna Parnok, Reference Guide to Russian Literature. Edited by Neil Cornwell. London, Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998, pp. 614-15.
    “Antichnost’ v lirike Sofii Parnok” (“Antiquity in the Lyrics of Sophia Parnok”), Materialy nauchno-tematicheskoi konferentsii v q. Sudak (Papers of the International Scholarly Conference in Sudak). Moscow: Marina Tsvetaeva Museum, 1997, pp. 74-93.
    “Sofia Parnok” and “Lesbianism in Russia”, Frauenliebe Maenerliebe. Eine lesbisch-schwule Literatrgeschichte in Portraets. Edited by Alexandra Busch and Dirck Linck. Stuttgart, Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler, 1997, pp. 331-335 and 162-166.
    “Nadeschda Durowa, Amazonen und Lesbischsein in der russischen Kultur,” Forum Homosexualität und Literatur 29, 1997, pp. 67-80.
    "The Deconstruction of Sappho Stolz. Some Russian Abuses and Uses of the Tenth Muse," Engendering Slavic Literatures, edited by Pamela Chester and Sibelan Forrester. Bloomington Ind.: Indiana University Press.
    "Mother Nature versus the Amazons. Marina Tsvetaeva and Female Same-Sex Love," Journal of the History of Sexuality, July, Vol. 6, No. 1, 1995, pp. 62-88.
    Biocritical entries on Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok for Gay & Lesbian Literary Heritage. Edited by Claude Summers. Chester CT: New England Publishing Associates, 1995.
    Biographical entries on "Parnok, Sofiia Iakovlevna" and "Solov'eva, Poliksena Sergeevna", Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Edited by M. Ledkovsky, C. Rosenthal, M. Zirin. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994, pp. 485-88 and 618-21.
    “Laid Out in Lavender: Perceptions of Lesbian Love in Russian Literature and Criticism of the Silver Age 1893-1917," Sexuality and the Body in Russian Culture, edited by Stephanie Sandler, Jane Costlow and Judith Vowles, Stanford University Press, 1993, 177-203.
    “Contexts and Reverberations of Sophia Parnok's Journey from her Father's Threshold: An Analysis of ‘Otchego ot otchego poroga...,'" Readings in Russian Modernism, Moscow: "Nauka," 1993, 48-66.
    "Sophia Parnok and the Writing of A Lesbian Poet's Life," Slavic Review, Vol. 52, No. 2, 1992.
    "Signs of a Response: Two Possible Parnok Replies to Her 'Podruga'," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2, 1991, 214-227.
    "Tatiana Larina's 'Letter to Onegin,' or 'La Plume Criminelle', Essays In Poetics. Journal of the Neo-Formalist Circle, September, Vol. 16, No. 2, 1991, 12-24.
    "The Life of Adelaida Gertsyk," Introduction to the first publication of Gertsyk's "Podval'nye ocherki," Russian Literature TriQuarterly, Ann Arbor: Ardis, No. 23, 1990, 357-360.
    "'After the Ball is Over': Sophia Parnok's Creative Relationship with Marina Tsvetaeva," The Russian Review, Vol. 47, No. 4, 1988, 425-445.
    "Mythical Ballads and Meta-Balladic Myth in Briusov's Verse," Studies in Russian Literature in Honor of Vsevolod Setchkarev, edited by J. Connelly and S. Ketchian, Columbus OH: Slavica, 1987, 61-73.
    "Jungian Dactyls on Death and Tolstoy (Verses Burlesque with Notations in Earnest)," New Studies in Russian Language and Literature, edited by A.L. Crone and C.V. Chvany, Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1986, 27-38.
    "The Reprieve of Nastasya: A Reading of a Dreamer's Authored Life," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1985, 258-268.
    "Prince Myshkin, The True Lover and 'Impossible Bridegroom': A Problem in Dostoevskian Narrative," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1983, 158-176.
    “Rzhevsky's Solzhenitsyn: Creator and Heroic Deed,” Western Humanities Review, Vol. 33, No. 2, 1979, 149-154. (Review article)
    "Bulgakov's Early Tragedy of the Scientist-Creator: An Interpretation of The Heart of a Dog," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 22, No. 4, 1978, 494-509.
    "The Fate of Modern Man. Ideas of Fate, Justice and Happiness in Solzhenitsyn's Cancer Ward," Soviet Studies, Vol. 27, No. 2, l974, 260-271.
    "The Mystery of ‘Pikovaia dama’: A New Interpretation," Mnemozina (Studia litteraria russica in honorem Vsevolod Setchkarev), Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, l974, 46-56.
  4. CREATIVE WRITING (VERSE PARODIES)
    5. "A Professor's Life-Cycle von D.R. Burgina," and "The Familiar, A New Parody by D.R. Burgina," Russian Literature TriQuarterly, No. 23, 1990, 403-414.
    "Jungian Dactyls on Death and Tolstoy," New Studies in Russian Language and Literature, Columbus, OH: Slavica, 1986, 27-29.
    "The Reprieve of Nastasya: A Reading in Verse," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1985, 269-278.
    "Prince Myshkin (An Article in Verse)," Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, 1983, 176-185.