It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev and translated by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Cory Merrill, Bela Shayevich

This is poetry from Russia.

It’s No Good by Kirill Medvedev translated by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Cory Merrill, Bela Shayevich is published by Ugly Duckling Presse. This is a Book originally written in Russian. This was published in 2012.0 and has the ISBN of 9.781933254944E12.

It’s No Good, by Kirill Medvedev and translated by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Cory Merrill, Bela Shayevich from Russian, brings Russian-language poetry from Russia into English through Kirill Medvedev’s Russian political refusal, anti-lyric argument, and the title’s blunt impatience with literary comfort. 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 refusal, politics, anger, and the direct speech that interrupts the room, 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. It’s No Good belongs in the translated poetry library because it belongs as a contemporary Russian work where poetry, activism, and disgust with systems press against each other.

If you’d like to see international poetry continue and gain traction, consider requesting this work from your local library, or purchasing it from places like Open Books (a poetry only bookstore), Asterism Books (an independent press distributor), or bookshop.org to connect you with your local bookstores.

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