Ivan Sokolov
Ivan Sokolov is a poet, translator and critic from St. Petersburg, Russia. Author of five books of poetry in Russian, he also translates the international avant-garde, from Gertrude Stein to Paul Celan. His Russian version of Ron Silliman’s “You” is forthcoming and a translation of Foreman’s “Samuel II” is just out. Sokolov’s translations from contemporary Russian writing are available in World Literature Today and the Back Room. His own work has been featured in a Deep Vellum anthology Verses on the Vanguard.
Richard’s passage to the psycho-astral realm on the eve of his last premiere had so shattering an effect because it manifested a higher form of truth that was of a piece with his entire creative world. Foreman had always been drawn to limit-state epistemologies.
