Dmitry Avaliani

Dmitry Avaliani (Russian: Дми́трий Евге́ньевич Авалиа́ни; 6 August 1938 – 19 December 2003) was a Russian poet and palindromist. He is the founder of Russian Palindrome; also important for his contribution to Russian visual poetry. He invented and perfected special poetic form, called listoverten' (Rus: листовертень). This is a small text (usually one or few words)written the way that after rotating at 90 or 180 angle, one reads different text, or sometimes the same; Also sometimes the two texts together make up one idea and rhyme. He was especially interested in pantorhyme, anagram and other especially difficult ways of rhyming.

References

• Contemporary Russian Poets Database Dmitry Avaliani
• The Russian Poetry Festival Oct. 17–19, 1998, St. Petersburg A report from Masha Zavialova
• Russian Poetry Now – Samizdat Magazine

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Name	Avaliani, Dmitry
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Date of birth	6 August 1938
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Date of death	19 December 2003
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