"The Life and Opinions of DJ Spinoza" is a cycle of fast, tragic, unsettling, hilarious poems about the shortcomings of reason. Eugene Ostashevsky's book responds to The Ethics of the seventeenth-century philosopher B. Spinoza, a work that seeks to construct an axiomatic system that is a theory of everything in a natural form of language with all its inconsistencies and ambivalence."1.""Dear Owl""you have big eyes""feathers that stick in all different directions""you wake up""your panties are funny""You hear""the sounds words make""as they plead for life""that's all that remains""of the language of language"Eugene Ostashevsky is the author of "Iterature" (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2005) and eight chapbooks. He is also the editor and main translator of "OBERIU: An Anthology of Russian Absurdism" (Northwestern University Press, 2006). A recipient of fellowships from the Witter Bynner Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Ostashevsky teaches at New York University.