Kholin 66 by Igor Kolin, trans. by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich Books that old beliefs still govern

that old beliefs still govern instinct’ – David Harsent

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Her delighted responses - in particular to the natural world - serve to peel away the film of familiarity through which we usually gaze

Roddy Lumsden returns to some familiar themes in his work: the trials of oneness versus twoness

Kholin 66 by Igor Kolin, trans. by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich Books that old beliefs still governKholin 66 is a trampoline into underground Soviet poet Igor Kholin's life and work through the window of a single autumn. In a string of acerbically related non adventures excerpted from his 1966 diary, Kholin moves to the country, sleeps a lot, drinks and debauches among Moscows literary underground, and eventually moves back to the city. Broke and bitter, he details his bemusement in terse, absurdist prose. The selection of Kholins poems features