Sergey Biryukov is a Russian poet living in Halle, Germany. He has
published many collections of his poems, the most recent two being "The
Run of Books" and "Calling" (both 2015). He also authored the monographs
entitled "Zevgma: Russian Poetry, Mannerism to Postmodernism" (1994) and
"The Amplitude of Avant-Garde" (2014), as well as a few other books on
Russian literary avant-garde. The founder and President of the Academy
of Zaum, which includes Russian Futurist poets, he was the recipient of
the Alexey Kruchenykh Poetry Award. His poems have been translated into
many European languages. This is his first book in English translation
(by Erina Megowan and Anatoly Kudryavitsky.)