Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of the poetry collections The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza and Iterature, both published by Ugly Duckling Presse, and The Pirate Who Does Not Know the Value of Pi (NYRB Poets), and the editor and translator of Alexander Vvedensky: An Invitation for Me to Think (NYRB Poets) and OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism (Northwestern University Press).