Book Talk. "Avant-Garde Post- Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union" 

Please join the Harriman Institute for a talk and discussion of the recent book Avant-Garde Post- Radical Poetics after the Soviet Union by Marijeta Bozovic, moderated by Mark Lipovetsky.
What does leftist art look like in the wake of state socialism? In recent years, Russian-language avant-garde poetry has been seeking the answers to this question. Marijeta Bozovic follows a constellation of poets at the center of a contemporary literary movement that is bringing radical art out of the Soviet shadow: Kirill Medvedev, Pavel Arseniev, Aleksandr Skidan, Dmitry Golynko, Roman Osminkin, Keti Chukhrov, and Galina Rymbu. While their formal experiments range widely, all share a commitment to explicitly political poetry. Each one, in turn, has become a hub in a growing new-left network across the former Second World.