Tag Archives: russian poetry

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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Ripples in language

Posted on February 22, 2015 by Jacob Edmond

Stone and Circles on Water (Камень и круги на воде) is the eighteenth in Dmitri Prigov’s series of poems built around the Russian alphabet, or azbuka, and the work that for me most clearly encapsulates Prigov’s “iterative poetics,” about which … Continue reading →

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Stephanie Sandler on Arkadii Dragomoshchenko as poet and photographer

Posted on August 12, 2014 by Jacob Edmond

Stephanie Sandler has a lovely piece on Jacket2 about the late, great poet Arkadii Dragomoshchenko’s work as both a poet and a photographer.

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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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Prigov’s visual poems in English

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

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

Posted on January 16, 2013 by Jacob Edmond

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 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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A poem for Arkadii Dragomoshchenko from Cilla McQueen

Posted on September 16, 2012 by Jacob Edmond

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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