"I am to be read not from left to right, but in Jewish, from right to left" [electronic resource] : the poetics of Boris Slutsky / Marat Grinberg.

Introduction: poet-interpreter/translator-scribe
Mythology/life, hermeneutics, translation
The coordinates: origin-return-seclusion
Pt. 1. Historiography
The Ur-suite of 1940/41: "poems about Jews and Tatars"
The poet-historian: transplantation added
A blessed curse: The midrash of 1947-53
Looking at the burned planet: the post-holocaust verse
The resurrected remnant: of horses and metapoetics
Pt. 2. Polemics
Writing the Jew: the poet's genealogies
On account of the elegy: within cemetery walls
Conversing about god: between the old and the new
Pt. 3. Intertexts
Among the objectivists: Charles Reznikoff
Blindness and no insight: David Samoilov
"leader of leaders and mentor of mentors": Il'ia Sel'vinskii
"Weighty proofs of the unprovable": Ian Satunovskii
the final myth: Pushkin
conclusion: the reader in perpetuity.