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'''Dmitry Avaliani''' ({{lang-ka|დიმიტრი ევგენის-ძე ავალიანი}}; {{lang-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. He invented and perfected the Russian ambigram, called ''listoverten<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' ({{langx|ru|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 and other especially difficult ways of rhyming.
==References== * [https://russianpoetsdatabase.blogspot.com/ Contemporary Russian Poets Database] Dmitry Avaliani * [http://www.samizdateditions.com/issue2/russianpoetrynow.html The Russian Poetry Festival Oct. 17–19, 1998] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081120083348/http://www.samizdateditions.com/issue2/russianpoetrynow.html |date=2008-11-20 }}, St. Petersburg A report from Masha Zavialova * [http://epc.buffalo.edu/conferences/reports/russia98.html Russian Poetry Now] – Samizdat Magazine
== External links == *{{in lang|en}} [http://drupal.stpetersburgreview.com/drupal/?q=issue4/5 English translations of five palindrome poems]
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Avaliani, Dmitry}} Category:1938 births Category:2003 deaths Category:Russian male poets Category:20th-century Russian poets Category:20th-century Russian male writers Category:Moscow State University alumni Category:Palindromists
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