switch the language: Roman Osminkin in n+1 mag
With this post we are continue new section (with the tag that will allow you to easily find its posts), in which we will publish foreign-language materials devoted to [Translit]. On the one hand, a lot of such materials have started appearing, on the other hand, they haven't been systematized on the blog at all but have just come through here and there as a one-off aberration.
We have never limited ourselves to a Russian-language audience, striving not only to translate Russian and bring it into correspondence with other languages but also to serve as an apparatus for the transmission and re-coding of messages in foreign languages, in other words, a mechanism for the systematic defamiliarization of our own language in both the linguistic and poetic sense. The time has come to extend the metaphor of defamiliarizing translation ("translit") into the regular practice of publishing in foreign languages.
Here we will put poems and articles by the authors of [Translit] that have been translated and published in foreign languages (which will also allow us to study the infrastructure of foreign-language resources devoted to experimental literature), interviews from newspapers and journals of a wider profile, and also announcements and reports on [Translit] events that take place abroad. If you would like to limit your reading to the materials in this section, you can subscribe to the RSS-feed with the tag "switch the language.
n+1 is a print magazine of politics, literature, and culture founded in 2004 and published three times yearly. Issue Eighteen, “Good News,” is now available by subscription.
The website is updated with new, usually web-only content three times a week. We do not post most of the print magazine online and encourage web readers to subscribe. We rely on subscriptions for most of our financial support.
Roman Osminkin. Poems and Fuckery
you know how sometimes you turn on the TV
and they’re all praising putin
so you say fuck this and you change the channel
but on the next channel they’re all praising putin too
you’re like fuck this and you change the channel again, pissed off
but even here, they’re praising putin
so you’re like fuck everything
and you turn off the motherfucking TV
you get online
and they’re all talking shit about putin
you go to another site
they’re all talking shit about putin there too
a third
and they’re talking even more serious shit about putin than anywhere before
pissed off, you’re like fuck this
and get offline
then sometimes you pick up a book
one of the Russian or foreign classics
but more often Russian
you settle down comfortably in your armchair
tuck your legs beneath you
set a glass of cognac on the end table
and you think
My God
there are some fundamental human values left on this earth after all
-Translated from the Russian by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich
and some other texts at http://nplusonemag.com/three-poems-osminkin
We have never limited ourselves to a Russian-language audience, striving not only to translate Russian and bring it into correspondence with other languages but also to serve as an apparatus for the transmission and re-coding of messages in foreign languages, in other words, a mechanism for the systematic defamiliarization of our own language in both the linguistic and poetic sense. The time has come to extend the metaphor of defamiliarizing translation ("translit") into the regular practice of publishing in foreign languages.
Here we will put poems and articles by the authors of [Translit] that have been translated and published in foreign languages (which will also allow us to study the infrastructure of foreign-language resources devoted to experimental literature), interviews from newspapers and journals of a wider profile, and also announcements and reports on [Translit] events that take place abroad. If you would like to limit your reading to the materials in this section, you can subscribe to the RSS-feed with the tag "switch the language.
n+1 is a print magazine of politics, literature, and culture founded in 2004 and published three times yearly. Issue Eighteen, “Good News,” is now available by subscription.
The website is updated with new, usually web-only content three times a week. We do not post most of the print magazine online and encourage web readers to subscribe. We rely on subscriptions for most of our financial support.
Roman Osminkin. Poems and Fuckery
you know how sometimes you turn on the TV
and they’re all praising putin
so you say fuck this and you change the channel
but on the next channel they’re all praising putin too
you’re like fuck this and you change the channel again, pissed off
but even here, they’re praising putin
so you’re like fuck everything
and you turn off the motherfucking TV
you get online
and they’re all talking shit about putin
you go to another site
they’re all talking shit about putin there too
a third
and they’re talking even more serious shit about putin than anywhere before
pissed off, you’re like fuck this
and get offline
then sometimes you pick up a book
one of the Russian or foreign classics
but more often Russian
you settle down comfortably in your armchair
tuck your legs beneath you
set a glass of cognac on the end table
and you think
My God
there are some fundamental human values left on this earth after all
-Translated from the Russian by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich
and some other texts at http://nplusonemag.com/three-poems-osminkin