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date: 05 July 2022

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This chapter considers the place in the Leningrad Cultural Underground of the poet Arkady Dragomoshchenko (1946–2012), one of the most important Russian poets of the post-war generation and, arguably, Russia’s most important global poet of the post-Soviet age. Although an essential presence in the Leningrad cultural avant-garde of the 1970s and 1980s, he was never part of any schools or movements. While his work transcended the generic, formal, and thematic boundaries of what was written by his peers at the time, it also transcended the boundaries of the Russian poetic tradition. The chapter examines Dragomoshchenko’s lifelong preoccupation with the groundless foundations of language as it situates his unique poetics in the context of his close engagement with literary, musical, and visual experiments of the Leningrad underground and identifies the roots of his interest in global poetics.

Keywords: : Dragomoshchenko, Russian experiment, Underground poetics, Kuriokhin, post-Avantgarde, counterculture of St Pete

Evgeny Pavlov

Evgeny Pavlov is Associate Professor of Russian at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. He is the author of Shok pamiati: avtobiograficheskaia poetika Val’tera Beniamina I Osipa Mandel’shtama (2005), editor and co-editor of a number of scholarly volumes, including a special issue of the Slavic and East European Journal on Arkady Dragomoshchenko (2011) and of numerous articles and chapters. He translated a number of Dragomoshchenko’s prose texts into English, including Kitaiiskoe solntse (Chinese Sun). He co-edits The New Zealand Slavonic Journal.

Dennis Ioffe

Dennis Ioffe is Chair of Russian and Associate Professor of Russian Studies at the Université libre de Bruxelles (Belgium). He is co-editor-in-chief of the journal Russian Literature (Elsevier Science). During last fifteen years he edited a dozen of academic volumes and authored over a hundred scholarly articles (in English, French, Dutch, Russian, Hebrew, and German), which appeared in leading academic journals in Western Europe, Russia, and the US. His main field of expertise is history of modern Russian and Eastern European culture, politics, and visual art.

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