Kholin 66 by Igor Kolin, trans. by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich Books a key – finding

a key – finding

cuts to wages

landscapes and animals become charged with tension as in ‘Heron/Snow’ where the bird carries “worlds in the cipher of your feathers

It is some time in the 1970s

from Terry Street (1969) to The Year's Afternoon (2000)

Kholin 66 by Igor Kolin, trans. by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich Books a key – findingKholin 66 is a trampoline into underground Soviet poet Igor Kholin's life and work through the window of a single autumn. In a string of acerbically related non adventures excerpted from his 1966 diary, Kholin moves to the country, sleeps a lot, drinks and debauches among Moscows literary underground, and eventually moves back to the city. Broke and bitter, he details his bemusement in terse, absurdist prose. The selection of Kholins poems features