vak’s 2007 book, The Book Is Named (Kniga nazyvaetsia), which gracefully intertwines the poems of the book with its paratextual material to demonstrate how an interrelationship between the two may be manifested. Verina continues with a subsection on current trends in poetry books, such as “tribute” (trib'iut) texts (113) and deliberately ambiguous titles like Maria Stepanova’s Poetry and Prose in One Volume (Stikhi i proza v odnom tome) (117). Verina finds roots for the latter trend in Symbolist poetry, the example to which most of the authors look when examining contemporary poetry across this volume. The third section, also relatively brief, “The Book in the Life [lit. Fate] of the Poet” (“Kniga v sud'be poeta”), is divided into three subsections: debut releases, “culminating works” (ito- govye knigi), and posthumous editions. Barkovskaya authors an exhaustive survey of the his- tory of poetic debut texts and explores the impact of a carefully timed debut for even a poet who has, perhaps, already been publishing for several years, but in journals or other media rather than a single-author book, as in the case of Belarusian poet Vladimir Glazov. Verina offers a persuasive account of posthumous publications in the West of Russian and Belarusian poets which amounts to an unexpected and original take on literary history. The fourth and final section, “The Book of Poetry in Socio-Cultural Context” (“Kniga stikhov v sotsiokul'turnom kontekste”), is quite lengthy and, purposefully, more fragmented. For this reason, it may be more useful to point out a few of the most compelling contributions. Lilia Gurina presents in this section several important contributions to the study of contemporary fe- male poets: Vera Pavlova (the self-proclaimed “sexual-counterrevolutionary” (seksual'naia kon- trrevoliutsionerka)) and the influence of Marina Tsvetaeva; Vera Polozkova, who uses online photography in conjunction with her poetry; and the writers of the art-collective bAb/ishchi, specifically analyze how gender functions in their manifestos. Also of note is Barkovskaya’s ex- cellent article describing the recent re-emergence of civic poetry in the projects “Kraft” and “Citizen Poet” (“Grazhdanin poet”). While the flow of A Book of Poems at times feels disjointed, as the volume consists of dozens of single-author short articles, this effect is moderated by clear and careful organization and uni- fying, introductory passages written collaboratively by the authors for the four large sections, as well as for the subsections of the volume. This volume thus may serve as both a useful guide to the poetry book in the contemporary Russian and Belarusian contexts, as well as an impor- tant resource for scholars of the numerous individual poets featured in this volume looking for a print-oriented reevaluation of canonical and contemporary poetry. Carlotta Chenoweth, Yale University Ingunn Lunde. Language on Display: Writers, Fiction and Linguistic Culture in Post-Soviet Russia. Russian Language and Society. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017. ISBN 9781474421560. 232 pages. £75.00 (hardback). The book under review is devoted to the late shifts in language culture that took place in post- perestroika Russia. Taking into consideration the strong Russian tradition that closely links stan- dard language (literaturnyi iazyk) and the language of literature (iazyk literatury), and conse- quently “the role of literature in establishing and maintaining the standard language” (34), Ingunn Lunde explores debates and discussions that have taken hold in contemporary Russia, analyzing in particular writers’ responses to them, both explicit (through interviews, for exam- ple) and implicit (in their literary works). After introducing the concept of sociolinguistic change, that is “the study of changes in language and in society, but also the study of changes in the relationship between language and society” (2), the author convincingly proposes, in the end, a theory of performative metalanguage: “Performative metalanguage amounts to state- 756 Slavic and East European Journal