Pavel Arsenev
Pavel Arsenev (Павел Арсеньев, 1986, Leningrad) is an artist, poet and theorist. He graduated in Theory of Literature from the Faculty of Philology and Arts at St. Petersburg State University. He is the author of two books of poetry. Arsenev is founding editor of Translit, a Petersburg journal for poetry and theory and a former member of the Poetry Actionism Laboratory (2008-12) with Roman Osminkin and Dina Gatina. He was the recipient of the Andrei Bely Literary Prize in 2012. He lives in St Petersburg.
Works
- To, chto ne ukladyvayetsya v golove. Stikhi [То, что не укладывается в голове. Стихи; That, Which Does Not Settle In the Head], St Petersburg: AnnaNova, 2005. [1] (Russian)
- Bestsvetnyye zelonyye idei yarostno spyat. Stikhi [Бесцветные зелёные идеи яростно спят. Стихи; Colorless Green Ideas Violently Slumber], Moscow & St Petersburg: Kraft, 2011. (Russian)
- Spasm of Accomodation, Berkeley: Commune Editions, 2017.
- Reported Speech, New York: Cicada Press, 2018.
- Lo spasmo di alloggio, Bologna: Arcipelago Itaca Edizioni, 2021.
- The Literature of Fact and the Project of Literary Positivism in the Soviet Union of the 1920s [Литература факта и проект литературного позитивизма в Советском Союзе 1920-х], New Literary Observer, 2023.
