Authors

Discussion

Anna Glazova is a poet, scholar, and translator from Russia, now living in Hamburg. In her writing, she often centers animals, plants, and natural phenomena, exploring the capacity of poetic form to engage with non-human Others. Criticizing the view of nature as a resource for material and creative exploitation, Glazova sketches out alternative modes of engagement with the non-human world. Her writing shifts between scales of perception and employs analogy to reveal the interconnectedness of life systems. Rather than a detached observer projecting emotions onto her surroundings, her heroine emerges as an attentive, embodied subject involved in co-creation of meaning. In this paper, I analyze Glazova's approach, show how it challenges the boundary between nature and culture, and invites readers into a space of risky, transformative encounters with the world.