Tag Archives: russian poetry

Endarkenment by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

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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Prigov’s visual poems in English

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

I’m very excited that someone is finally having a go at translating Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy into English. Kristin Reed is a braver soul than me, and it’s wonderful to see her translations of what she terms Prigov’s Versographies published in the … Continue reading →

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Stephanie Sandler translates Elena Fanailova

Posted on January 20, 2013 by

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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Dmitri Prigov and Cross-Cultural Conceptualism / Дмитрий Пригов и межкультурный концептуализм

Posted on January 16, 2013 by

A revised Russian version of chapter 5 of A Common Strangeness, “Dmitri Prigov and Cross-Cultural Conceptualism,” has just been published in Новое литературное обозрение (Novoe literaturnoe obozrenie, or New Literary Review) as “Дмитрий Пригов и межкультурный концептуализм” (Dmitrii Prigov i … Continue reading →

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Prigov and Tarasov in Performance

Posted on December 10, 2012 by

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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A poem for Arkadii Dragomoshchenko from Cilla McQueen

Posted on September 16, 2012 by

to AD   as i was reading your poem in Dunedin you were dying in Russia this is to say I recognise the span of your spare word-frame the unnecessary pared away to idea shimmering between you and a flower, … Continue reading →

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Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, 1946–2012

Posted on September 13, 2012 by

              With great sadness, I learnt yesterday of the passing of a great poet and a friend: Arkadii Dragomoshchenko. I have written a brief commentary about Arkadii as the first post in my commentary on … Continue reading →

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Conceptual Writing and the Russians

Posted on July 16, 2012 by

Over on the Los Angeles Review of Books, Matvei Yankelevich has just published a very interesting response to Marjorie Perloff “Poetry on the Brink: Reinventing the Lyric,” published in the Boston Review’s May/June 2012 issue. In his piece, Yankelevich  not … Continue reading →

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Prigov’s Stikhogrammy (Poemographs or concrete poems)

Posted on February 7, 2012 by

Most of Dmitri Prigov’s incredible and diverse work is currently difficult for someone without Russian to access online (for an exception, see his PennSound page here). I’m hoping to rectify this by taking up Kenneth Goldsmith’s offer to put some … Continue reading →

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