Book record
Soviet Texts
Ainsley Morse, Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov
Translated from Russian by Simon Schuchat
Soviet Texts is a Russian multi-author or collaborative poetry volume from Russia, associated with Ainsley Morse, Dmitri Alexandrovich Prigov, translated by Simon Schuchat, and published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2020. It is a Russian edition of experimental Soviet-era writing where performance, ideology, and unofficial art press against each other. The title sounds plain, but that plainness is part of the tension: texts made under a system that wanted language to behave. 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
- 2020
- Publisher
- Ugly Duckling Presse
- Language
- Russian
- Country
- Russia
- ISBN
- 9781946433077