Sergey Biryukov is a Russian poet living in Halle, Germany. He has published many collections of his poems, the most recent two being "The Run of Books" and "Calling" (both 2015). He also authored the monographs entitled "Zevgma: Russian Poetry, Mannerism to Postmodernism" (1994) and "The Amplitude of Avant-Garde" (2014), as well as a few other books on Russian literary avant-garde. The founder and President of the Academy of Zaum, which includes Russian Futurist poets, he was the recipient of the Alexey Kruchenykh Poetry Award. His poems have been translated into many European languages. This is his first book in English translation (by Erina Megowan and Anatoly Kudryavitsky.)