Book 2022

New Hull RU

New Hull
Mikhail Kuzmin
New Hull New Hull

 

Information
Realm
Russian
Author
Mikhail Kuzmin
Title
New Hull
Paratexts

Afterword by: Simona Schneider

Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Ugly Duckling Presse
Date of Publication
2022
Illustrations
Yes
Material Type
Book
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
41
OCLC Number
1350607136
Language
English
Russian
Genre
Poetry
Translator
Simona Schneider

Mikhail Kuzmin. New Hull. Translated with an afterword by Simona Schneider. New York: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2022.

Description

Published as a chapbook 100 years ago, New Hull is a cycle of love poems by Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936), Russia’s first openly gay writer, in response to Fritz Lang’s film Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922). The poem’s Orphic verse addresses the American playboy billionaire, Edgar Hull, wrestling him back from Mabuse’s oppressive gaze. Kuzmin’s elegy speaks to virtual world citizens, teasing media presence beyond passive-active viewing on a sleepwalker-spectator-dictator continuum, gently steering film plot and allegory into lyric song.

Published as a chapbook 100 years ago, New Hull is a cycle of love poems by Mikhail Kuzmin (1872–1936), Russia’s first openly gay writer, in response to Fritz Lang’s film Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922). The poem’s Orphic verse addresses the American playboy billionaire, Edgar Hull, wrestling him back from Mabuse’s oppressive gaze. Kuzmin’s elegy speaks to virtual world citizens, teasing media presence beyond passive-active viewing on a sleepwalker-spectator-dictator continuum, gently steering film plot and allegory into lyric song.