The first UK publication of this award-winning Russian-born American poet and translator.
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Eugene Ostashevsky writes at the junctures of language, culture, and nation, exploring themes of migration, translation, and second-language expression. His work often deconstructs the linguistic strategies and exclusions embedded within terms like 'native,' 'refugee,' and 'mother tongue.' Ostashevsky's poetry is contemporary, border-crossing, and deeply humane, offering readers a unique perspective on the complexities of identity and communication. His distinct voice transforms abstract concepts into compelling literary explorations.
- 2019
- 2017
The Fire Horse
- 45 pages
- 2 hours of reading
The early years of the Soviet Union were a golden age for children s literature. The Fire Horse brings together three classics from the era in which some of Russia s most celebrated poets, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam, and Daniil Kharms, teamed up with some of its finest artists, Lidia Popova, Boris Ender, and Vladimir Konashevich.
- 2017
The Pirate Who Does Not Know The Value Of Pi
- 144 pages
- 6 hours of reading
An original collection from one of the most active poets in contemporary literature. Winner of the 2019 International Poetry Prize from the City of Münster The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi is a poem-novel about the relationship between a pirate and a parrot who, after capturing a certain quantity of prizes, are shipwrecked on a deserted island, where they proceed to discuss whether they would have been able to communicate with people indigenous to the island, had there been any. Characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical irony and narrative handicaps, Eugene Ostashevsky’s new large-scale project draws on sources as various as early modern texts about pirates and animal intelligence, old-school hip-hop, and game theory to pursue the themes of emigration, incomprehension, untranslatability, and the otherness of others.