Book record
Kholin 66
Bela Shayevich, Igor Kholin
Translated from Russian by Ainsley Morse
Kholin 66 is a Russian multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Russia, associated with Bela Shayevich, Igor Kholin, translated by Ainsley Morse, and published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2017. It is a Russian documentary-poetic edition centered on Igor Kholin, unofficial culture, and the pressures of Soviet literary life. The title feels archival and secretive, like a file number that opens into a person, a scene, and a century. I would not ask the reader to solve this book before feeling it. The better invitation is to start with the image that will not quite explain itself, then follow the pressure of cadence, silence, and address. For this library, the book matters as more than a representative entry from Russia. It gives English-language readers another route into how poetry travels: not as a tidy report from elsewhere, but as a living encounter with local weather, historical pressure, and the privacy of a voice.
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781937027995