[Cambridge]

Eugene Ostashevsky Reading from The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi
April 12, 2017, 7:00 pm
at Grolier Poetry Book Store

Eugene Ostashevsky, born 1968, is the author of The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi, a book of poems about communication challenges in pirate-and-parrot relationships, published by NYRB Poets, as well as The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza, a book of poems about the shortcomings of rationalism, where philosophical superheroes fight monsters made of math, published by Ugly Duckling in 2008. His translations of Daniil Kharms and the writers of his circle include OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism, and Alexander Vvedensky's An Invitation for Me to Think. The latter, also published by NYRB Poets, won the 2014 National Translation Award from the American Literary Translators Association. Event details here.