to be continuedto be constitutedto be attractedto be confirmedto be a beeto be pronouncedto be selectedthey reacted overoverreacted, i meanto be separated from a verbto be exclusively hinted atto be hauntedto be excitedto be outnormedis that even a word?to be conformedto be propusk a pass / a gap to be over the moonover the sputnikto be over withto be fed upto be put upstairsto climb the stairsto abstainto call it a dayвоздержаться to hold backпросто держаться to just hold onabhalten to detainobratit’sya k sebe to address yourselfto be sebeto give sebe time to create spaceto recreate to procreateto moanto molit’sya praygive your coat to mol’ mothstoo much of everythingnot quite enoughto may it whom concernto twistto twist the night into the dayto address the dayto possessto be possessedto obsess over lines and dotsto обсасывать пальцы ноготочки lick your fingers fingernails to buy когтеточка a scratching postto keep Pizik from eating too muchto drink stuffto stuff your stomachto keep the night aliveto resemble decemberto keep to decemberto keep to the lineto outlinein light of further eventsin the blink of an eventto keep an eye closedon the brink ofto keep an eye onto postponeto pay for thingsto receive a receiptto cite somethingto somebody
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[to be continued] from DIS TANZ: by Inna Krasnoper.
Published by Veliz Books on March 23, 2025.
Copyright © 2025 by Inna Krasnoper.
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Inna Krasnoper is a poet and artist born in Ufa (Bashqortostan) and based in Berlin. She graduated from the Chto Delat Collective School of Engaged Art in Saint Petersburg and holds a BA in Dance, Context, Choreography from the Berlin University of the Arts. Her Russophone poetry collections include Nitki torchat (Loose Threads), published by the Voznesensky Center, and Dorogoy chelovek (Dear Person), published by New Literary Observer. Her multilingual poetry has appeared in her chapbook Over Sight (Eulalia Books), as well as in Annulet, Gulf Coast, Ghost Proposal, and elsewhere. Her first English-language poetry collection dis tanz was published by Veliz Books.
Inna Krasnoper’s debut English-language poetry collection dis tanz is an unfolding space of movement and transition, tracing questions of identity, language, and belonging. These poems insist that communication is a process and ask for an active mode of reading and localizing oneself. dis tanz is a book that problematizes the gaps between languages, but also looks for points of contact, and the means for becoming proximate.
"Here is a writer about whom the usual questions—What language does she write in? Where is she from?—cannot easily be answered. Her work brings to mind the humor of Ivan Blatný’s multilingual poems, Gertrude Stein’s play with repetition, John Cale’s 'Cordoba' collaged from a Spanish-language primer, the vocab-poverty of Samuel Beckett, and the contemporary cross-language experimentation of Ida Börjel, Eugene Ostashevsky, Cia Rinne, and Uljana Wolf, to name a few. Migration, war, and the crises of nation-state and mother-tongue set the stage for Krasnoper’s uneasy dance of and with language, as waves of identity’s fetters crash against the shores of yet-undiscovered blue islets of a future Babel."
—Matvei Yankelevich, author of Dead Winter
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