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The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza

The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza is a cycle of fast, tragic, unsettling, hilarious poems about the shortcomings of reason. Eugene Ostashevsky’s book responds to The Ethics of the seventeenth-century philosopher B. Spinoza, a work that seeks to construct an axiomatic system that is a theory of everything in a natural form of language with all its inconsistencies and ambivalence.

“1.”

Dear Owl

you have big eyes

feathers that stick in all different directions

you wake up

your panties are funny

You hear

the sounds words make

as they plead for life

that’s all that remains

of the language of language

Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of Iterature (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) and eight chapbooks. He is also the editor and main translator of OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern University Press, 2006). A recipient of fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ostashevsky teaches at New York University.

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 112
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780981552101
  • Genres
  • poetry
  • Release date
  • 2008