Kholin 66 by Igor Kolin, trans. by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich Books from Terry Street (1969) to

from Terry Street (1969) to The Year's Afternoon (2000)

The last man

cuts to wages

Ailbhe Darcy’s second collection unfolds in an intimate world

Kholin 66 by Igor Kolin, trans. by Ainsley Morse and Bela Shayevich Books from Terry Street (1969) toKholin 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