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Andrei Sen-Senkov

Translated from the Russian by Alex Cigale

to each window
its own evening

in proportion to
the glass's dimensions

***

open the window!
through it and into
our room will fall
the stars and square
slices of air
fresh fresh ….

 

Born in Dushanbe (present-day Tajikistan) in 1968, Andrei Sen-Senkov is a graduate of the Yaroslavl Medical Institute and has lived in Moscow since 2001 where he works as a pediatrician and acupuncturist. He is the author of five books of poetry and was shortlisted for the Andrei Bely Prize in Literature in 2006. He also works in the fields of visual poetry, photography, and other visual media. The selection appearing here is from his first book, Little Tree on the Tear's Slope: Poems, Visual Poetry (Moscow: Argo-Risk, 1995). His more recent books include Secret Life of the Toy Piano (1997) and Holes Resist (2006).

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