[New York]

Eugene Ostashevsky
October 30, 2015, 3:00 pm
at NYU

co-curating the launch of Vasily Kamensky’s “Tango with Cows” with Daniel Mellis at NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. Eugene Ostashevsky is a Russian-American poet and translator who teaches in the Liberal Studies program. As the author of two books and ten chapbooks of poetry, most notably The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, he has appeared in Best American Poetry, and received awards in the US as well as the Berliner Künstlerprogramm fellowship from DAAD. His writing is characterized by multilingual punning, humor puerile and set-theoretical, philosophical depth and narratological handicaps. As scholar and translator of Russian twentieth-century and contemporary poetry, he has received the National Translation Award, the Best Translated Book Award, the NEA, and other translation prizes. He has had his librettos for contemporary classical music performed in Italy, Germany, and the Netherlands. more info here