Ostashevsky, Eugene

Originally from Leningrad, after a Brooklyn-based adolescence Eugene Ostashevsky went west, performed poetry, got a Ph.D., and helped found 9x9 industries in San Francisco, then came back to New York by way of Turkey. Eugene's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Best American Poetry 2005, JUBILAT, FENCE, Boston Review and other magazines. His translations of Alexander Vvedensky and Nikolai Zabolotsky have appeared in American Poetry Review, CONJUNCTIONS and elsewhere. He is the editor of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism from Northwestern University Press. He is also the author o...