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Daniil Kharms • Russian Absurd
“Ada, our ardors and arbors”—a dactylic trimeter that was to remain Van Veen’s only contribution to Anglo-American poetry—sang through his brain.
Vladimir Nabokov • Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle (Vintage International)
After their theatrical zaum-based (or “transrational,” “beyond the mind”), Dada-like performances were banned in 1927,
Daniil Kharms • Russian Absurd
“This is the time to be slow,
Lie low to the wall
Until the bitter weather passes.
Try, as best you can, not to let
The wire brush of doubt
Scrape from your heart
All sense of yourself
And your hesitant light.
If you remain generous,
Time will come good;
And you will find your feet
Again on fresh pastures of promise,
Where the air will be kind
And blushed with
