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Latest Review: Red Shifting

Our latest review is by Margarita Shalina, who reviews Alexandr Skidan’s Red Shifting, a collection of poems which won the Andrei Bely Prize in ...

Red Shifting

Alexandr Skidan鈥檚 mentor, Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, describes Red Shifting as 鈥淸s]omnambulistic.鈥 Indeed, Skidan creates dream-poems. What is at play in the dream-poem? Incest and GAS! The Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco. Bely and Blok. Vladivostok and St. Petersburg. In this exploration of the inside versus the ...

Latest Review: Night Wraps the Sky: Writings By and 蘑菇传媒 Mayakovsky

Our latest review is by Margarita Shalina, who reviews a collection of writings by and about Vladimir Mayakovsky, Night Wraps the Sky, which was edited by Michael Almereyda. ...

Night Wraps the Sky: Writings By and 蘑菇传媒 Mayakovsky

“A Mayakovsky Bestiary” Maria 鈥 Don’t you want me? You don’t want me! “A Cloud in Pants” (p. 103), Vladimir Mayakovsky Big man with a big voice, Futurist, prisoner in solitary confinement, graphic designer, propagandist, early Soviet film star, Poet, suicide. There is no ...

Latest Review: Nettles by Venus Khoury-Ghata

Our latest review is by Liam Powell, who reviews a collection of poems, Nettles, by the Lebanese poet and novelist Venus ...

Nettles

Nettles is the most recent collection of poetry by Lebanese poet and novelist Venus Khoury-Ghata, who brandishes a long list of accolades that include the Prix Mallarm猫 and the Grand Prix de la Soci猫t猫, for separate works of poetry. Nettles is a powerful exploration in five parts. The book鈥檚 first two sections, The ...

Secret Weapon

Secret Weapon is the final collection from Romanian poet Eugen Jebeleanu (1911-1991). I can鈥檛 say that I knew all that much about Romania or Romanian poetry before picking up this book, likely because this is the first time Jebeleanu鈥檚 work has appeared in English despite his reputation as one of Romania鈥檚 best-known ...