Red Shifting
This collection of translations by Genya Turovskaya, Eugene Ostashevsky, Evgeny Pavlov, Jacob Edmond and Natasha Randall was published by Ugly Duckling Presse in 2008.
The poetry
Aleksandr Skidan is one of Russia's most important contemporary poets. With language that is at once literary, cinematic, philosophical, journalistic, his innovative writing calls into question the distinction between poetry and philosophy. Skidan blurs and shifts the boundaries between the two as literary genres and as modes of discourse. His poetry is both lyrical and disjointed, addressing unflinchingly the literary and historical condition of post-Soviet Russia, engaging in continuous discourse with what Walter Benjamin would call the origins of the present crisis.
