Red Shifting: Poems and Essays (Eastern European Poets Series) (Russian Edition) - Softcover

Skidan, Alexander

Softcover

ISBN 10: 093901095X ISBN 13: 9780939010950

Publisher: Zephyr Press, 2007

Synopsis

Red Shifting is the first major collection in English of avant-garde St. Petersburg author Alexander Skidan’s poetry and essays, translated by award-winning poets and translators Genya Turovskaya and Eugene Ostashevsky.

Born in 1965, Alexander Skidan lives in St. Petersburg, Russia. The author of several books of poetry and essays, he served on the selection committee for the Andrei Bely Prize. In 1997, Skidan’s book A Critical Mass was nominated for the Small Booker Prize. In 1998, he received the Turgenev Award for prose and in 1994 participated in the International Writing Program at the University of Iowa.

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About the Author

Born in 1965, he lives in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The author of two books of poetry and a book of essays. He is also a translator of Susan Howe into Russian. Genya was born in Kiev and grew up in New York City. She has an MFA from Bard College and is the author of Calendar (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2002) and is the recipient of various awards and fellowships. Her poetry and translations have appeared in many publications. Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature (UDP 2005) and of eight chapbooks. He is also the editor and main translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, (NUP 2006). A recipient of fellowships from the Wyttner Bynner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ostashevsky teaches at NYU. Daniel Weissbort is the general editor of the series Modern Poetry in Translation, and a translator of numerous books from the Russian. He recently retired from the Department of Comparative Literature at The University of Iowa.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zephyr Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: Russian
• ISBN 10: 093901095X
• ISBN 13: 9780939010950
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96