Aleksandr Skidan

Aleksandr Skidan is one of Russia’s most important contemporary poets. With language that is at once literary, cinematic, philosophical, and journalistic, his innovative writing calls into question the distinction between poetry and philosophy. Skidan blurs and shifts the boundaries between the two, as literary genres and as modes of discourse. His poetry is both lyrical and disjointed, addressing unflinchingly the literary and historical condition of post-Soviet Russia.