Third Wave: The New Russian Poetry

by Kent Johnson (Editor), Stephen M. Ashby (Editor), Mikhail Epstein (Contributor)

Third Wave gathers writings by contemporary Russian poets whose linguistic and conceptual experimentation represents what critics have termed a “third wave” of literary innovation. The work of this new generation of poets, having gained impetus and audience in the era of perestroika, reflects an experimental spirit that has not surfaced in the USSR since the avant-garde surge of the 1920s and the poetic revival that accompanied the liberalization of the 1950s and 1960s.This historic collection will appeal to the general reader eager for a glimpse into contemporary Soviet literature and culture as well as to scholars working in the areas of comparative literature, Soviet studies, modern literature, poetics, and the avant-garde.

313 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1992

About the author

Kent Johnson (born 1955) is an American poet, translator, critic, and anthologist. His work, much of it meta-fictional and/or satirical in approach, has provoked a notable measure of controversy and debate within English-language poetry circles.

Reviews

[david-baptiste · Rating 5 out of 5]

a great collection which includes statements/manifestos by each poet--so far in the book the poet who has interested me for some time and recently died, dmitri prigov--very astonishing poetry, conceptualist, exploring also heteronymity, and fascinating statement re this--