Matvei Yankelevich

Matvei Yankelevich Reading @ Birkbeck

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Matvei Yankelevich Reading @ BBK (Monday 10 February 2014)

The CPRC Birkbeck welcomes Matvei Yankelevich

Monday 10 February 2014

7.30 pm, Room G01, School of Arts, Birkbeck College, 43 Gordon Square, London WC1H 0PD.

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Matvei is a poet, translator of Russian poetry, and one of the founding editors of Ugly Duckling Presse (Brooklyn, NY). This is a great opportunity to hear him reading from his own work.

His books include Boris by the Sea (Octopus, 2009) and Alpha Donut (United Artists, 2012), and he have a book-length poem coming out with Black Square Editions later this year. He also translated Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms (Overlook / Duckworth, 2007; paperback, 2009).

All welcome – free entry

Do check out the CPRC events page for details of this and other upcoming events at Birkbeck: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/cprc/events/

The Gray Area: An Open Letter to Marjorie Perloff

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“…if we take Conceptualism and Conservatism as two poles in our current poetry culture, as you are proposing, then the curious thing is that the most extreme examples at either pole converge in one very important way: in the purported transparency of their language. Both subordinate the materiality of language to other aims: for the Conservator, the goal is emotional identification achieved through either narrative, or the semblance of epiphany, or what have you, and for the Conceptualist, the goal is revelation of the framework which governs the text. ” Matvei Yankelevich responds to Marjorie Perloff at the Los Angeles Review of Books.