Please join us for the evening of reading and conversation with Pavel Arseniev, a poet, editor, theoretician, and recipient of the Andrei Bely prize, Russia’s most prestigious literary award, in 2012. He stands as one of the helmsmen of Translit, an independent journal of poetics and theory, that has become a real force in charting for the new generation of Russian writers a path (or, rather, a lovely and meandering dérive) between the legacy of the Russian avant-garde of the 1920s and literary theory, on the one hand, and the most contemporary Western philosophy, on the other. Joined by his New York translators, including Anastasiya Osipova, Arseniev will read from his new bilingual poetry edition entitled Reported Speech (Cicada Press, 2018). In his poetry Arseniev pays equal attention to politicizing and historicizing even the most mundane facts of the poet’s life, while, at the same time, approaching reified bits of found speech and political propaganda with lithe irony and tender lyricism.
Pavel Arseniev. Reported Speech
