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Alphabet for the entrants

Title
Alphabet for the entrants / Vasilisk Gnedov ; translated from the Russian by Emilia Loseva & Danny Winkler.
Author
Gnedov, Vasilisk, 1890-1978
Publication
  • Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.
  • Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn
  • ©2018

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Additional Authors
  • Loseva, Emilia
  • Winkler, Danny
  • Smith, Rebekah
  • Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
  • McNaughton & Gunn, printer, binder.
  • Don't Look Now (Firm), compositor.
  • Sevendoubleyou (Firm), compositor.
Description
30 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
"Bringing together a selection of his early Futurist works and poems from his later years, Alphabet for the Entrants is the first stand-alone volume of poetry by Vasilisk Gnedov available in English. Marked by the vibrancy and self-grandiosity of a rising literary star, the early poems seek to forge a new language by dissembling the old. The later poems, stripped of formal experimentation, reveal a meditative consciousness refined through years of personal turmoil. By turns inscrutable and aphoristic, caustic and tender, morose and ebullient, the poems express the poet's evolving view of poetry and the rapidly changing world around him."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 23).
Series Statement
Eastern European poets series ;$vno. 44
Uniform Title
  • Poems. Selections. English. 2018
  • Eastern European poets series ; #44.
Alternative Title
Poems. 2018
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Poetry.
  • Translations.
  • Zines.
Note
  • Poems.
  • "Edition of 600 copies. Design by Sevendoubleyou, with Don't Look Now!, and Rebekah Smith. Typeset in New Caledonia, Cochin, and Avenir. Printed offset and bound by McNaughton & Gunn. Dust jacket printed by Prestige Printing. Paper for cover and dust jacket from French Paper Co. Assembled by volunteers at Ugly Duckling Presse."--Colophon.
Contents
Flyanna (1913) -- The goat's sweetmeat (1913) -- The sorowee of damnies (1913) -- Pippingdom (1913) -- [first line: a Da manstrel...] (1913) -- Petitohrsey (2nd year after Death) -- Yesterday, today, tomorrow (2549 AD) -- Thefirstgreatdrama (38687 AD) -- Alphabet for the entrants (1913) -- The fiery robe (1917) -- [first line: Natalia Goncharova...] (1917) -- [first line: That galloping swan...] (1918) -- [first line: suk...] (undated) -- [first line: My words are not so transparent...] (undated) -- [first line: The past the present the future...] (undated) -- [first line: I did not know you were of crystal...] (undated) -- [first line: Overshadowed. Overwoed. Overstressed...] (undated) -- [first line: The less you comprehend the more you are poetically tuned...] (undated) -- [first line: The beginning of springtime...] (undated) -- [first line: Maybe I am god...] (undated) -- [first line: In the snow I walk like a dozing bear...] (1973) -- [first line: It is easy to believe what you are told...] (1974) -- [first line: Now everything is accessible...] (1974) -- [first line: I felt cold from the opening...] (1974) -- [first line: Things should not be called by their names...] (undated).
Call Number
JFC 18-30
OCLC
1057558317
Author
Gnedov, Vasilisk, 1890-1978, author.
Title
Alphabet for the entrants / Vasilisk Gnedov ; translated from the Russian by Emilia Loseva & Danny Winkler.
Publisher
Brooklyn, New York : Ugly Duckling Presse, 2018.
Manufacturer
Saline, Michigan : McNaughton & Gunn
Copyright Date
©2018
Edition
First Edition; First Printing.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Eastern European poets series ;$vno. 44
Eastern European poets series ; #44.
Biography
"Vasilisk (Vasily) Gnedov (1890-1978), a central figure in Russian Futurism, published his best-known work, Death to Art, on the brink of the first World War. Abrasive and wily in his younger years, he became known for his provocations and poetry, which actively sought to collapse language in on itself. Swept up by the cataclysmic events of twentieth-century Russia, he eventually returned to his homeland of Ukraine, where he died in obscurity."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 23).
"Emilia Loseva is an independent author who writes and translates poetry, essays, film scripts and conceptual texts for multi-disciplinary events. She worked on films and other projects with Danny Winkler. Together they completed a book of English translations of Russian Futurist poet Vasilisk Gnedov. This undertaking followed the translation of an anthology of Futurist poets, "Futurosis", for a music project by avant-garde composer Nick Sudnik. She is currently translating the experimental poetry of Willy Melnikov for a forthcoming event in St Petersburg."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 23).
"Danny Winkler (1976 - 2014) worked with experimental photography before completing postgraduate Visual Anthropology studies at Goldsmiths College in London. Having previously worked with the United Nations, British Council, and One World Media, he was involved with anthropological projects, documentary scripts and freelance writing."--Publisher's website (viewed 2018 October 23).
Local Note
Ugly Duckling Presse chapbook and zine collection.
Chronological Term
1900-1999
Place of Publication
United States New York Brooklyn.
Added Author
Loseva, Emilia, translator.
Winkler, Danny, translator.
Smith, Rebekah, compositor.
Ugly Duckling Presse, publisher.
McNaughton & Gunn, printer, binder.
Don't Look Now (Firm), compositor.
Sevendoubleyou (Firm), compositor.
Research Call Number
JFC 18-30
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