Dmitry Golynko

Dmitry Golynko is one of the boldest linguistic innovators in Russian poetry today. A hard coming of age during the collapse of the Soviet system sensitized his ear to how language mutates in response to political and social change... His new obsession with documenting how regular Russians speak and think leads him to appropriate the latest from the most varied linguistic strata: bureaucrat-ese, mafia slang, blogspeak, technical jargon, teenage cant. His replacement of authorial self with found expressions, and of narrative with seriality, aids to generate texts whose apparent soullessness is in fact infused with real emotion. Particularly attuned to how language encodes power relations, Golynko creates a portrait of contemporary Russian life that is as darkly unsentimental as it is surgically precise. Eugene Ostashevsky C A L Q U E: Interview With Dmitry Golynko. calquezine.blogspot.com/2008/06/interview-with-dmitry-golynko.html http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org/page-asitturnedout.