A Reading by Eugene Ostashevsky from His Collection "The Feeling Sonnets"

Eugene Ostashevsky was born in Leningrad, grew up in Brooklyn and is now based in Berlin and New York. He is the author of several books of poetry and translator of avant-garde and experimental literature in Russian.  Lyn Hejinian says, "Feelings proliferate in *The Feeling Sonnets*, and first among them is the feeling that we have to ask what we mean by feeling. It is to feel his way toward an answer to that primary question that the brilliant poet Eugene Ostashevsky has written this collection of vivacious, witty, and anguished poems. ...  And extending through the linguistic microsystem of vowels and consonants that shift meaning from place to place (and even nation to nation) is the exquisite sensibility of a poet, erudite, humble, and closely watching over those he loves. This is an extraordinary and beautiful book." This event is supported by the CHI and the Eastman Fund. Photo credit:  Una Ostashevsky