A one-of-a-kind book, made in August 1998 as birthday gift from the author to Ellie Ga, a frequent collaborator on the Ugly Duckling zine and other early UDP projects.
This “Boris” became the first piece in Yankelevich’s fragmentary novella, Boris by the Sea (Octopus Books, 2009)
It begins: “Boris was thirsty, so he watered his plants.”
About the Author
Matvei Yankelevich is a founding member of the Ugly Duckling Presse editorial collective and has curated UDP’s Eastern European Poets Series since 2002, and was a co-editor of 6×6 (2000-2017). His most recent book of poetry is Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt (Black Square). His co-translation (with Eugene Ostashevsky) of Alexander Vvedensky’s An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets), received a National Translation Award. His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Ardis/Overlook). He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the National Endowment for Humanities. He teaches translation and book arts at Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
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Hand-bound. 20 pp, 7 x 5.5 in
Publication Date: January 01 2000