Early verses. Kucheryavkin V.

Vladimir Kucheryavkin (b. 1948) - poet, prose writer, translator. Born in Kaliningrad. He graduated from the Kaliningrad Polytechnic and the Faculty of Philology LSU. He worked as an installer, a fire department instructor, a gas boiler operator, and a college teacher. Translated from Polish and English. The author of the books “Dance of the Dead Leg” (1994), “far from the Cordon” (1994), “Treteen” (2001), “Favorites” (2002), “Outdoor window” (2011), “Contemplation S.” (2014), “Notes from a secret notebook” (2016), “To Yanzhchou A thousand” (2018), “Third Dream” (2022). Short List Prize Andrei Bely (2001).

This book contains the poems of Vladimir Kucheryavkin, written by him in the 1980s. Unlike a later, mature creativity, the poetics of which originally continues the traditions of the Russian avant-garde-first of all, the Oberiuts, the author’s early works are not so experimental: musical and deceased stanzas, harmonious, only sometimes going into the flicker of rhyme, not yet transformed by alologisms and dissonances grammar. The poet seemed to look at the “Parnassian” cosmos for the first time, carefully and reverently listens to the word, freezes in disinterested contemplation. The confidence of the world is an organic, but invaluable consequence of this position: he speaks and reveals himself, comes to life in every seemingly inadvertently packed thing. Random passengers in the carriage and a road passerby, half -dressed in the trees of the courtyard and the “whole beautiful and dead” leaf in the wind, plants and stones, horses, fish, birds - everything becomes “as if a beautiful jump in the sky.”