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Alex Cigale

Contributor

Alex Cigale

Alex Cigale’s own English-language poems appear widely, including in the Colorado Review, The Common, and The Literary Review. His translations of Russian Silver Age and Contemporary prose and poetry have appeared in the Harvard Review Online, Kenyon Review Online, New England Review, The Hopkins Review, Michigan Quarterly, Modern Poetry in Translation, PEN America, TriQuarterly, and World Literature Today. From 2011-2013, he was an Assistant Profesor at the American University of Central Asia. A 2015 NEA Literary Translation Fellow for his work on Mikhail Eremin, he also edited the Spring 2015 Russia Issue of Atlanta Review. His first full book, Russian Absurd: Daniil Kharms, Selected Writings came out this year in the Northwestern University Press World Classics series.

Articles by Alex Cigale

A Parallel Convergence: Three Contemporary Russian Poets
By Alex Cigale & Dana Golin
The three poets collected here are “outliers,” who yet may be read as having points of commonality with developments in post-war American poetry.
Translated from Russian
From “Poems”
By Mikhail Eremin
The post-war ruins (Roofs ripped off, / The charred walls.)
Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale
Multilingual
Three Poems
By Shamshad Abdullaev
The day was silent to distraction, / only the dog’s growl traveled beyond the window
Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale & Dana Golin
Multilingual
Eddie’s Funeral
By Amarsana Ulzytuev
But his dirty ears are resistant to their tender entreating, / And the thick lips will not stretch from these ears into a smile
Translated from Russian by Alex Cigale
Multilingual