biography
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Zabolotsky, Nikolay
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1903–58)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in the Russian provinces, who produced all his work during the Soviet era. During the experimental period of Russian art in the 1920s he was a member of the Oberiu (Society for Real Art) Movement. His collection of satirical poems, Columns (also translated as Scrolls), appeared in 1929. In 1938 he was arrested on trumped-up charges of conspiracy, and spent the next eight years in prison camps and exile. His best-known poems include a strange and idiosyncratic group, of which the most remarkable is ‘Agriculture Triumphant’, intended as a celebration of collectivization and scientific technology. His poems appear in translation in Nikolay Zabolotsky Selected Poems (1999) edited by Daniel Weissbort. |
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