Speechlessness: Conversation with Pavel Arsenev about russian anti-war poetry
Over about 17 years since its creation in Saint Petersburg, the independent journal for poetry and theory [Translit] has been publishing politically engaged poetry and literary criticism in russian language. The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia’s armed forces on February 24 marked a significant break in the history of the journal, bringing their leftist agenda and a postcolonial, anti-imperial approach to writing to a new point of crisis. Former