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Endarkenment by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

I am overjoyed that Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s selected poems, Endarkenment, is now officially forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press. Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky, I hope and trust that this, sadly, posthumous collection will open the eyes of a new and broader English-speaking … Continue reading

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Jonathan Stalling reviews A Common Strangeness

Jonathan Stalling has reviewed A Common Strangeness for Modern Chinese Literature and Culture. The review begins: To begin with, Jacob Edmond’s new book, A Common Strangeness, is anything but common and signals what I hope will be a new trend … Continue reading

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Vitaly Chernetsky reviews A Common Strangeness

“Jacob Edmond has written a remarkable book—impassioned, theoretically astute, and timely—that deserves to garner significant response across many fields in the humanities.” ––Vitaly Chernetsky (Miami University; author of Mapping Postcommunist Cultures: Russia and Ukraine in the Context of Globalization), reviewing … Continue reading

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Stephanie Sandler translates Elena Fanailova

Stephanie Sandler’s translation of Russian poet Elena Fanailova’s poem “Lena i Lena” (“Lena and Lena”) has just gone up as a feature on Jacket2. Sandler introduces her translation by mapping out beautifully how Fanailova’s work undoes the false binary of … Continue reading

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Prigov and Tarasov in Performance

Today on Jacket 2, I am delighted to present a guest post from Gerald Janecek on the work of the conceptual artist and writer Dmitri Prigov, whose work is the focus of one chapter of A Common Strangeness. Some time ago, … Continue reading

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Save 30% on A Common Strangeness

Fordham University Press is currently offering a 30% discount on all its books, including A Common Strangeness, which can be purchased here for only US $18.20 until the end of the year. The same discount will be available in January … Continue reading

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Revolutions per Minute: Charles Bernstein

I have a new post on my Jacket2 “Iterations” commentary. This post focuses on Charles Bernstein and draws on and augments material from A Common Strangeness. In the essay “The Conspiracy of Us” (first published in 1979, in L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E), Charles … Continue reading

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A Common Strangeness Released

A Common Strangeness has finally been released. Extracts from the book can be read on Google Books here. The book is available for purchase here. You can like the book here. A Common Strangeness is published by Fordham University Press … Continue reading

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