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Alexander Delfinov's new book-by the Berlin-based post-punk poet writing in Russian-is a mixture of fury and tenderness, confession and sarcasm, absurdity and lucidity. These texts do not merely describe reality; they are a living component of it. Delfinov writes as if poetry were the last thing that remains when everything else has already been taken away. Language here functions as an instrument of direct action: against war, against empire, and for the right to speak when silence is commanded. You can begin reading from any page. On one of them is exactly what you need. Новая книга Александра Дельфинова - берлинского постпанк-поэта, пишущего по-русски, - это ярость и нежность, исповедальность и сарказм, абсурд и трезвость. Эти тексты - не описание, а живая составляющая реальности. Дельфинов пишет так, словно поэзия - последнее, что остаётся, когда всё остальное уже отнято. Язык здесь работает как инструмент прямого действия против войны, против имперства, за право говорить, когда приказано молчать. Можно начинать читать с любой страницы. На одной из них то, что нужно именно вам.

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Alexander Delfinov (b. 1971, Moscow) is a poet, prose writer, performance and spoken-word artist, and journalist. He is a co-founder of the PANDA platforma art cluster (Berlin, 2009). He won the international Poetry SLAM!Revue in Berlin (2007), the international poetry-slam festival Slamstival in Jerusalem (2016), and was a finalist of the European Poetry Slam (2020).His poems have been translated into German, English, Spanish, Italian, Finnish, French, Greek, Georgian, and Hebrew.Since 2023 he has been performing the theatrical spoken-word performance ""Under the Raccoon's Surveillance,"" based on the novel Natan by Artur Solomonov; the funds raised from these performances have been directed to aid Ukraine.Since 1998 he has collaborated with various non-governmental organizations involved in HIV prevention and the advocacy of humane drug policy in Russia, primarily with the Andrey Rylkov Foundation.He participated in the project #IAmPsycho, a documentary series about people living with psychiatric diagnoses (Berlin, 2019-2021).In 2024 he released the anti-war spoken-word album Radio ""Spektakl"", created together with musician and sound producer Evgeny Shapovalov. In 2025 he released the musical-poetic AI album Songs of the Last Wave, created with Petr Goryev.He has lived in Berlin since 2001. In May 2025 he was designated a ""foreign agent"" in the Russian Federation.

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