Book 2018

Reported Speech

Reported Speech
Pavel Arseniev
Reported Speech Reported Speech
Information
Author
Pavel Arseniev
Title
Reported Speech
Edition
1
Place of Publication
New York
Publisher
Cicada Press
Date of Publication
2018
Material Type
Book
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
203
OCLC Number
1080197912
ISBN
9780991042043
Language
English
Russian
Genre
Poetry
Translator
Thomas Campbell
Pavel Arseniev. Reported Speech. Translated by Thomas Campbell. New York: Cicada Press, 2018.
Description

Reported Speech is a bi-lingual edition of Pavel Arseniev’s (Saint Petersburg) poetry with an introduction by Kevin M.F. Platt (University of Pennsylvania). Arseniev’s poetry provides a living link between the legacy of the 1920s Soviet avant-garde art­ and theory, on the one hand, and the modern Western materialist thought on the other. It traces how these influences become weaponized in the language of contemporary Russian protest culture. Arseniev readily politicizes all, even the most mundane facts of the poet’s life, while approaching reified bits of found speech and propaganda with lithe, at times corrosive, irony and lyricism.