Boris Slutsky (1919-1986) is a major original fi gure of Russian poetry of the second half of the twentieth century whose oeuvre has remained unexplored and unstudied. The fi rst scholarly study of the poet, Marat Grinberg s book substantially fi lls this critical lacuna in the current comprehension of Russian and Soviet literatures. Grinberg argues that Slutsky s body of work amounts to a Holy Writ of his times, daringly fusing biblical prooftexts and stylistics with the language of late Russian Modernism and Soviet newspeak.