Excerpts from a Grumpy Russian Poet's Diary

IGOR KHOLIN. ILLUSTRATIONS BY RIPLEY WHITESIDE.

Both my neighbors were utterly drunk. One of them dragged the other one home on a horse. They’re both around 70.

The Russian poet Igor Kholin was underappreciated when he died but his Selected Poems were published in 1999 to wide acclaim, followed by his collected prose. This year, a new collection of his diaries and prose will be published in Russia.


Read an excerpt from his diaries here