Red Shifting

by Skidan, Alexander; Turovskaya, Genya; Ostashevsky, Eugene; Pavlov, Evgeny; Edmond, Jacob

• ISBN13: 9781933254333
• ISBN10: 1933254335
• Edition: Bilingual
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Ugly Duckling Pr

Summary

Poetry. Cultural Writing. Essays. Translated from the Russian by Genya Turovskaya and Eugene Ostashevsky. Alexander Skidan is one of Russia's most important contemporary poets. With language that is at once literary, cinematic, philosophical, journalistic, his innovative writing calls into question the distinction between poetry and philosophy. In RED SHIFTING, Skidan blurs and shifts the boundaries between the two as literary genres and as modes of discourse. His work is both lyrical and disjointed, addressing unflinchingly the literary and historical condition of post-Soviet Russia, engaging in continuous discourse with what Walter Benjaminwould call "the origins of the present crisis". He lives in St. Petersburg where he is also a literary and cultural critic, journalist, and translator, as well as one of the founding members of the collaborative art and politics publication What Is To Be Done. In 2006 he won the Andrey Bely prize for Non-Fiction.

Table of Contents

Arkadii Dragomoshchenko: Backwards Mirror
Travesty	p. 3
Delirium	p. 5
Either/Or	p. 19
Naked Breakfast. a Premiere	p. 21
Breakfast on the Grass	p. 23
("Red Bridge ...")	p. 27
("The Plaster Cast...")	p. 31
("The Hoof of Winter...")	p. 35
The Flame of Cassis	p. 39
Scholia	p. 45
Kondratievsky Prospect	p. 65
Disjecta Membra	p. 73
The Large Glass	p. 91
Piercing of the Lower Lip	p. 107
Red Shifting	p. 133
Libretto	p. 151
Variations on Blok	p. 155
("Tackle.. .")	p. 163
Translator's Note; Notes to the Text; About the Author; About the Translators	p. 167
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