Aleksandr Vvedensky was born in St. Petersburg, Russia (Leningrad), and took an interest in poetry at an early age. An admirer of Velemir Khlebnikov, Vvedensky sought apprenticeships with writers connected to Russian Futurism. He was arrested for "counterrevolutionary agitation" in September 1941. With other prisoners evacuated to Kazan but died of pleuritis on the way. His place of burial is unknown. Most of Vvedensky's poetry was not widely known during his lifetime and not published in Russia until much later. He was known in small circles of writers in Leningrad. A two-volume collected works came out first in America, and then in Moscow in 1991. His idiosyncratic, morbidly humorous, and linguistically innovative work has slowly begun to be translated into English.

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