Russian Poetry in the Age of Boom and Bust

Lecture | November 2 | 4-5:15 p.m. | 270 Stephens Hall

Speaker/Performer: Dmitry Golynko

Sponsors: Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Institute of (ISEEES), Slavic Languages and Literatures, Department of

Dmitry Golynko was born in 1969, in Leningrad, USSR. He currently lives in St. Petersburg, Russia,
where he is a poet, scholar, and literary and art critic. He is also a researcher at the Russian Institute of
Arts History in St. Petersburg. He is a member of the Moscow Art Magazine editorial board and a
professor at the University of Film and Television Studies (St. Peterburg, Russia). His books of poetry
include Homo Scribens (St. Petersburg, Borey-Art,1994), Directory (Moscow, Kolonna Publications,
2001), Concrete Doves (Moscow, New Literary Review, 2003), and As It Turned Out (New York, Ugly
Duckling Presse, 2008). In addition to poetry, Golynko regularly publishes essays on contemporary
literary topics and cultural phenomena. He is a CEC ArtsLink Fellow for 2009, and will be a CEU
(Budapest) Fellow for 2010, and a DAAD (Berlin) Artist-in-Residence for 2010-2011. Golynko's poems
and essays have been translated into English, German, French, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Swedish and
Italian.
"Particularly attuned to how language encodes power relations, Golynko creates a portrait of contemporary
Russian life that is as darkly unsentimental as it is surgically precise....His replacement of authorial self with found
expressions, and of narrative with seriality, aids to generate texts whose apparent soullessness is in fact infused
with real emotion."
—Eugene Ostashevsky

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