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Russian Absurd; DANIIL KHARMS
Translated by Alex Cigale
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I just added 'Translation of Vasily Zhukovsky's “Singer in the Kremlin” in Four Centuries 18' to Academia! academia.edu/37078419/Trans…. Safeguard our King! And send our King Thine blessings and all earthly gifts. Grant onto Him the pleasures of the earth...

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My second post @BestAmPo on nupress.northwestern.edu/content/russia… Daniil Kharms's Women. blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ameri… I’m in love with your pudenda; it’s moist

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I just added Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms's Women to Academia! academia.edu/31454964/Russi… I’m in love with your pudenda; it’s moist and smell

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The third in my series of blog posts on my forthcoming book, Russian Absurd (NWUP, 2017). Daniil Kharms on Children blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ameri…

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“I find heroics, pathos, moralizing abhorrent.” Kharms saw “pure nonsense” as the only sensible reaction to the madness of the world around. x.com/NorthwesternUP…

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rbth.com/arts/literatur… Kharms aesthetic: the ridiculous as a reaction and an alternative to revulsion and resignation before an absurd age.

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jacket2.org/reviews/author… The absurd may be characteristic of authoritarian regimes. The reading of Daniil Kharms is quite urgent in our day.

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I just uploaded my transl. of UNDP's 2012 report for KG from my time teaching at American U. Central Asia Academia! academia.edu/33768029/Human…

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For #NationalBookLoversDay Northwestern University Press is having 30% sale until 9/4/2017 (use Promo Code BLOWOUT17 at checkout)! nupress.northwestern.edu/content/russia…

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I just added Translations of 3 Contemporary Russian Poets: Viacheslav Kupriyanov, Dm. Kuzmin, Al. Kabanov Academia! academia.edu/34443025/Trans…

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Immensely grateful! "One of a half-dozen or so indispensable books I read this year... [This] agile rendering of Kharms’s work is as fine a representation in English as I’ve seen of the ambiguity, shading, and tense-shifting that typifies Russian prose..." (Northwestern University Press) x.com/The_Millions/s…

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I just uploaded "The Other Side of Sound: Sources and Trends in Sound Art in Russia" by Dmitry Bulatov to Academia! academia.edu/36499458/The_O…. For anyone interested in connections between Russian Futurism (Khlebnikov), Zaum, Noise Orchestras, Electronica, & SOUND ART more broadly.

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I just added Translation of Vladislav Khodasevich's "November the 2nd" in The Hopkins Review 11.2 to Academia! academia.edu/36625878/Trans… For seven days and seven nights Moscow thrashed About in the flames, in a daze. But the crude medic Bled her––and energy spent, towards morning

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I just added 'Introduction to Vladislav Khodasevich, "Four Poems," in The Hopkins Review 11.2' to Academia! academia.edu/36629911/Intro… ... Neither “Mozart and Salieri” nor “The Gypsies” On that day gave me any comfort....