Lyn Hejinian's spectral Leningrad recalls the opening of a world in the Cold War's wake–a world of artists and writers hunting for the intersection of words, lives, and things. Reading Oxota today, we find a rare, urgent instance of language able to span identities and ideologies, Russia and America.–Steven Lee, Associate Professor at the University of California Berkeley
It is a deep pleasure to reopen this book, a book of estrangement, of fragmentation, of scattered light and scattered speech, of bridges of sense cast over waters of foreignness. Oxota records a trusting encounter between two poetries across cultural difference unimaginable today.–Eugene Ostashevsky, editor of Arkadii Dragomoshchenko's Endarkenment