And Everything Around is so Russian it Makes Your Head Spin

Russian Studies experts Alena and Jan Machonin will present an anthology of poetry by Russian poets of the Lianozovo school, Zloději všedních okamžiků (Thieves of Every Moment), issued this year by the publishers Arbor vitae. The work of Yevgeny Kropivnitsky, Genrikh Sapgir, Igor Kholin, Vsevolod Nekrasov and Jan Satunovsky from the turn of the 1950s and 1960s is close in its poetics to Western experimental or minimalist poetry; at the same time, however, it grew out of the domestic avant-garde from the start of the century and the realities of Moscow’s peripheries.