Dmitry Avaliani ( ka, დიმიტრი ევგენის-ძე ავალიანი; rus, Дми́трий Евге́ньевич Авалиа́ни, p=ˈdmʲitrʲɪj jɪvˈɡʲenʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ɐvəlʲɪˈanʲɪ, a=Dmitriy Yevgyen'yevich Avaliani.ru.vorb.oga; 6 August 1938 – 19 December 2003) was a Russian poet and palindromist, who made "important" contributions to Russian

visual poetry Literary theorists have identified visual poetry as a development of concrete poetry but with the characteristics of intermedia in which non-representational language and visual elements predominate. Differentiation from concrete poetry As the li ...

. He invented and perfected the Russian

ambigram An ambigram is a calligraphic design that has several interpretations as written. The term was coined by Douglas Hofstadter in 1983. Most often, ambigrams appear as visually symmetrical words. When flipped, they remain unchanged, or they mutate ...

, called ''listoverten''' ( rus, листовертень; could be loosely translated as ''rotate-page''). This is a short text (usually just a few words) written so that after rotating 90° or 180° it is legible as a different text, or sometimes the same. Sometimes the two texts together make up one idea, and rhyme. He was especially interested in pantorhyme,

anagram An anagram is a word or phrase formed by rearranging the letters of a different word or phrase, typically using all the original letters exactly once. For example, the word ''anagram'' itself can be rearranged into ''nag a ram'', also the word ...

and other especially difficult ways of rhyming.

References

Contemporary Russian Poets Database
Dmitry Avaliani

, St. Petersburg A report from Masha Zavialova

– Samizdat Magazine

External links

English translations of five palindrome poems
1938 births 2003 deaths Russian male poets 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian male writers Moscow State University alumni {{Russia-poet-stub