...Aleksandr Skidan; James McGavran Copyright © 2020 Duke University Press 2020 Common Knowledge 26:2 DOI 10.1215/0961754X-8192750 © 2020 by Duke University Press 336 P O E T R Y THE WORKS AND DAYS OF DANIIL IVANOVICH Aleksandr Skidan Translated by James McGavran * Daniil Ivanovich really didn t...

..., or poet- critics, has in his recent work laid down an intertextual gauntlet, creating texts that one can only fathom by reading between the lines and by having already read most, if not all, of Russian and Soviet literature. To read The Works and Days of Daniil Ivanovich, one first must know that the main...

..., and Letters of Daniil Kharms . Charles Bernstein , a recipient of the Bollingen Prize for Poetry, is Donald T. Regan Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Between 1978 and 1981, he edited...