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Alexander Vvedensky
Alexander Vvedensky
Translated from Russian by Matvei Yankelevich
Alexander Vvedensky, by Alexander Vvedensky and translated by Matvei Yankelevich from Russian, brings Russian-language poetry from Russia into English through Vvedensky's Russian absurdism, philosophical comedy, and the destabilizing intelligence of language that refuses ordinary causality. The metadata gives the reader a doorway, but the real value is what happens once the poem starts making its own weather. I would read it for absurdity, logic, rupture, and the comic terror of a sentence becoming unreliable, not as a fixed lesson about Russia. The best entry point is still the poem itself: the line that catches, the image that refuses to explain itself, the feeling that arrives before paraphrase. Alexander Vvedensky belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as an essential Russian avant-garde work for readers who enjoy difficulty with teeth.
- Published
- 2009
- Publisher
- Green Integer
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781933382333