It's No Good: poems / essays / actions (Eastern European Poets)
It's No Goodis an event. Archimedes said: Give me a place to stand, and a long enough lever, and I'll move the world. Kirill Medvedev and his translators have given American readers another place to stand, a kind of Zuccotti of the mind. Now if only we can keep our grip on the lever. --Garth Risk Hallberg, The MillionsMedvedev's unique mixture of poetry and prose, artistic and political at once, givesIt's No Gooda lasting power that immediately places him in the forefront of international activist art. --Will Evans, Three Percent ReviewHe is a Russian humanist, writing about Russia and for Russians, but lucidly aware of the global system in which national literatures have their place, and of the universal concerns that ripple through these literatures. It is pornographic and caring, composed by a good person whose phantasms are firing, who can't just write the sort of poetry he has written here and be happy about it. --Justin Eric Halldor SmithPart of the nightmare world thatIt's No Goodevokes is one that both Orwell and the members of Pussy Riot would understand. It's a nightmare of euphemism and cant. "This is what happens," Mr. Medvedev writes, "when the authorities don't want to speak clearly and don't want to be spoken of clearly, either."--Dwight Garner, the New York TimesPart of the nightmare world thatIt's No Goodevokes is one that both Orwell and the members of Pussy Riot would understand. It's a nightmare of euphemism and cant. "This is what happens," Mr. Medvedev writes, "when the authorities don't want to speak clearly and don't want to be spoken of clearly, either." --Dwight Garner, the New York TimesHe is a Russian humanist, writing about Russia and for Russians, but lucidly aware of the global system in which national literatures have their place, and of the universal concerns that ripple through these literatures. It is pornographic and caring, composed by a good person whose phantasms are firing, who can't just write the sort of poetry he has written here and be happy about it. --Justin Eric Halldor SmithPart of the nightmare world thatIt's No Goodevokes is one that both Orwell and the members of Pussy Riot would understand. It's a nightmare of euphemism and cant. "This is what happens," Mr. Medvedev writes, "when the authorities don't want to speak clearly and don't want to be spoken of clearly, either." --Dwight Garner, the New York TimesHe is a Russian humanist, writing about Russia and for Russians, but lucidly aware of the global system in which national literatures have their place, and of the universal concerns that ripple through these literatures. It is pornographic and caring, composed by a good person whose phantasms are firing, who can't just write the sort of poetry he has written here and be happy about it. --Justin Eric Halldor Smith