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Genrikh Sapgir
МКХ – мушиный след
MKKh, the track of the fly
Kineshma: Goppe, 1997
290 x 185 mm. 8 pages
Edition: 20, copy № 20/20 with
an autograph by the author

Genrikh Sapgir (1928-1999) was
one of the famous Lianozovo group
of poets and artists named after the
Moscow Suburb Lianozovo where
they had settled and started making
their now well-known unofficial art.
The three letters M K Kh are best
known as the acronym of the Moscow
Bread Factory but are also slang for
the Moscow Shit Factory. This poem
is published here for the first time. Its
contents must be considered part of
the genre of vacuum poetry: poetry
about the void, life and death and the
trail of flies. The seven chapters of
these poems are illustrated with two
colour linocuts pasted on a collage of
pieces of brown paper.

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