Tag Archives: A Common Strangeness

Svetlana Boym

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Jacob Edmond

I was deeply shocked and saddened to learn last year of the death of Svetlana Boym. A few weeks ago, at the American Comparative Literature Association annual meeting at Harvard University, I joined colleagues, friends, and family for a session … Continue reading →

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Prigov’s concrete poems get bigger

Posted on March 10, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

One of Dmitri Prigov’s Stikhogrammy (poemographs or versographs) about which I write in A Common Strangeness has been blown up to the size of a multistory apartment building as part of an art project in Belyaevo, an area in Moscow … Continue reading →

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A Common Strangeness runner-up for A.S.A.P. 2013 Book Prize

Posted on October 13, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

A Common Strangeness has been selected as runner-up for the Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2013 Book Prize. The honor recognizes A Common Strangeness as “as one of the finest works in every field of … Continue reading →

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A Common Strangeness reviewed in the Slavic and East European Journal

Posted on September 26, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“In this ambitious and rich work, Jacob Edmond explores the relationship between recent poetry and globalism. Rejecting both the traditional East/West binary and the local/global opposition which he sees as its replacement, Edmond maps out a middle ground––an area of … Continue reading →

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Brian Reed reviews A Common Strangeness

Posted on May 31, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

Brian Reed’s review of A Common Strangeness is out now in Contemporary Literature. The review begins: The words transnational and globalization appear frequently within scholarship on contemporary poetry, but so far there have been few sustained attempts to narrate recent … Continue reading →

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Endarkenment by Arkadii Dragomoshchenko

Posted on April 23, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

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

Posted on April 7, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

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

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

“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

Posted on January 20, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

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

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

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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