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Eugene Ostashevsky works on writing that wrongs the borders of language, culture, and nation. His latest book of poetry, The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, published by NYRB Poets, discusses migration, translation, and second-language writing as wrought by pirates and parrots. For the Italian newspaper Il Manifesto, The Pirate “transforms the absurdity of Russian Futurism into a postmodern poetics of immigration, as it mixes puns, jokes, specialist jargon, early modern exploration and colonial narratives, Socratic dialogue, Wittgensteinian language games, and the allegorical fable.” A German reviewer writes that “when the pirate and the parrot are stranded on a deserted island, they deconstruct the strategies of linguistic exclusion hiding in the terms native, refugee, and mother tongue. This book is contemporary, border-crossing, and deeply humane.” For an American reader, “Ostashevsky’s original American poetry seems ready-made to discuss the multiple mutating filters of translation.” Ostashevsky is also the author of The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, a book of poetry about the irrationality of rationality, and a translator specializing in zaum’, or the meaningless language of the Russian avant-garde.

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Eugene Ostashevsky

Eugene Ostashevsky

Books from Eugene Ostashevsky

OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism

An Invitation for Me to Think: Selected Poems

The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi

Iterature

The Fire Horse: Children's Poems by Vladimir Mayakovsky, Osip Mandelstam and Daniil Kharms

Modernist Archaist: Selected Poems by Osip Mandelstam

DJ Spinoza's Dozen

Red Shifting: Poems and Essays

Enter Morris Imposternak, Pursued By Ironies

Lucky Breaks

Noughtbook 2

Noughtbook 1

The Feeling Sonnets

The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, Part 1

False Friends