{"id":293256,"date":"2013-03-04T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-04T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2013\/03\/04\/latest-review-its-no-good-by-kirill-medvedev\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:46","slug":"latest-review-its-no-good-by-kirill-medvedev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2013\/03\/04\/latest-review-its-no-good-by-kirill-medvedev\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "It's No Good" by Kirill Medvedev"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is a piece by Will Evans (aka Bromance Will) on Kirill Medvedev’s It’s No Good<\/em>, which is translated from the Russian by Keith Gessen, Mark Krotov, Corry Merrill, and Bela Shayevich and published by n+1\/Ugly Duckling Presse.<\/p>\n

By now, most of you know who Bromance Will<\/a> is, but for those who don’t, he was an apprentice here last summer and is starting up his own publishing house in Dallas. (And I have to give a public shaming to University of Texas at Dallas for not snatching Will up and hiring him. Huge loss, UTD<\/span>. Huge.) <\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s the opening of his review of this really interesting sounding collection:<\/p>\n

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To call Kirill Medvedev a poet is to focus on only one aspect of his work: Medvedev is a committed socialist political activist, essayist, leftist publisher, and literary critic who lives in Moscow and who uses the medium of poetry as his artistic base for a broader discussion of art and politics, and the artist’s place in today’s global consumer capitalist society.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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In 2004, Medvedev renounced the copyright to his own work and forbid any publication of his works via a LiveJournal blog post (included in this collection), announcing that any collected editions of his works henceforth would be pirated and published without the express permission of the author. Subsequently, a publisher in Moscow followed his advice and published a pirated collection of Medvedev’s works up to that point and fittingly titled it Texts Published Without Permission of the Author<\/i>. Two of America’s best indie publishers, n+1<\/i> and Ugly Duckling Presse, have teamed up to present the first English-language pirated sampling of Medvedev’s works up to this point, It’s No Good: Poems\/Essays\/Actions<\/i>, featuring wide-ranging excerpts selected from the first decade of his writing, including a well-curated selection of poetry to his most significant blog posts, along with lengthy essays on politics and art, descriptions and accounts of his political “actions,” and literary obituaries, all written between 2000 (the first cycle of poems published as It’s No Good<\/i> [\u0412\u0441\u0451 \u043f\u043b\u043e\u0445\u043e<\/i>]) and 2012. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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You don’t need to know anything about Russia today to read and enjoy Medevedev and, further, to identify universal themes within his work. This edition presents a potent mixture of Medvedev’s poetry and prose that, in his own words, explores the “link between politics and culture.” Medvedev breaks with centuries of Russian (and Western) artists’ attempts to create an apolitical world for themselves outside of the political and economic system in which they create their art: for Medvedev, art and politics are wholly inseparable, the artist cannot escape the influence of power and capital on their art.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the full piece. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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