TY - BOOK ID - 78074332 TI - Valerii Pereleshin : The Life of a Silkworm PY - 2018 SN - 1442619031 9781442619036 9781442648920 1442648929 9781442619043 144261904X PB - Toronto : University of Toronto Press, DB - UniCat KW - Authors, Exiled KW - Poets, Russian KW - Exiled authors KW - Exiles KW - Refugees KW - Expatriate authors KW - Authors, exiled KW - Poets, russian KW - Écrivains exilés KW - Poètes russes KW - Biography & autobiography KW - Authors, exiled. KW - Poets, russian. KW - Ryska poeter. KW - Ryska exilförfattare KW - Rysk exillitteratur KW - Languages & literatures. KW - Slavic, baltic and albanian languages & literatures. KW - General. KW - Historia. KW - Pereleshin, Valeriĭ. KW - Perelešin, Valerij, KW - 1900-1999. KW - Kina. KW - Brasilien. KW - Brazil. KW - China. KW - Pereleshin, Valeriĭ. KW - Перелешин, Валерий KW - Perelešin, Valerij KW - Перелѣшин, В. KW - Pereli︠e︡shin, V. KW - Pereleshin, Valery KW - Salatko-Petrishche, Valeriĭ Frant︠s︡evich, UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78074332 AB - Olga Bakich's biography of Valerii Pereleshin (1913-1992) follows the turbulent life and exquisite poetry of one of the most remarkable Russian émigrés of the twentieth century. Born in Irkutsk, Pereleshin lived for thirty years in China and for almost forty years in Brazil. Multilingual, he wrote poetry in Russian and in Portuguese and translated Chinese and Brazilian poetry into Russian and Russian and Chinese poetry into Portuguese. For many years he struggled to accept and express his own identity as a gay man within a frequently homophobic émigré community. His poems addressed his three homelands, his religious struggles, and his loves. In Valerii Pereleshin: The Life of a Silkworm, Bakich delves deep into Pereleshin's poems and letters to tell the rich life story of this underappreciated writer. ER -