CRITICISM

Sandler, Stephanie. “Elena Shvarts and the Distances of Self-Disclosure.” In Reconstructing the Canon: Russian Writing in the 1980s, edited by Arnold B. McMillin, pp. 79-105. Amsterdam: OPA, 2000.

Analyzes the role of self-disclosure in Shvarts's work.

Sandler, Stephanie. “Scared into Selfhood: The Poetry of Inna Lisnianskaia, Elena Shvarts, Ol'ga Sedakova.” Slavic Review 60, no. 3 (fall, 2001): 473-90.

Analyzes the relationship between anxiety and identity in the poetry of Shvarts, Inna Lisnianskaia, and Ol'ga Sedakova.

Shvarts, Elena with Valentina Polukhina. “Coldness and Rationality.” In Brodsky Through the Eyes of His Contemporaries, pp. 215-36. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992.

Shvarts discusses influences on her work, particularly that of Brodsky.

Additional coverage of Shvarts's life and career is contained in the following source published by the Gale Group: Contemporary Authors, Vol. 147; and Literature Resource Center.