About the Author:
Vladimir Druk is a Russian-born poet and inventor, one of the founding members of the Moscow Poetry Club in the waning days of the Soviet Union. “He is considered one of the leaders of the new wave of avant-garde Russian literature [….] his experimental verse, echoing the work of the early Futurists of Russia, a poetry, which digs into the roots of language in an effort to untangle meaning beyond language” (by John High, 2012). His collections include The Drawn Apple (DL, Moscow, 1990), The Switchboard(IMA-Press, Moscow, 1991), Disposable Birds (NLO, Moscow, 2009), The Second Apple (J-Press, New York, 2000), Days Are Getting Longer (TTFA, Moscow, 2013), and Alef-Bet: Numbers, Forms and Nominations (NLO, Moscow 2018) which received a prize known as Moskovsky Schyot diploma. His work has appeared in literary journals and leading poetry anthologies such as 20th Century Russian Poetry, Crossing Century: The New Russian Poetry and Third Wave, and has been translated into over 15 languages. He now lives in New York dividing his time between poetry and projects at Textonica, а digital incubator and interactive books publishing company he created.