AN INVITATION: Vvedensky Launch at Amherst Books: Ostashevsky, Barskova, Yankelevich

 
A CELEBRATION OF THE NYRB POETS PUBLICATION OF ALEXANDER VVEDENSKY’S AN INVITATION FOR ME TO THINK 

Eugene Ostashevsky, Matvei Yankelevich, and Polina Barskova will be reading in celebration of the release of An Invitation For Me to Think  by the Russian late-avant-garde poet Alexander Vvedensky.

The Nation writes: “Vvedensky’s poems sear…. There are few more churning, lacerating and willfully beautiful works in Eastern European literature.” For TLS, Vvedensky and his friends “mounted a challenge in the late 1920s and ’30s to “worldly logic” by questioning and confusing the most basic categories through which the world may be rendered coherent and transformed into narrative… They practiced a kind of silence through words, wearing various comic masks while pointing to inexpressible realities.”

Ostashevsky is the editor of the volume; Yankelevich is a contributor to it; Barskova teaches Russian Literature at Hampshire College.

They will be reading the work of Vvedensky and his friends, as well as their own.  See the book here.