Alexander Kushner Biography Poems

Lives in St. Petersburg. He graduated from the Faculty of Philology of the State Pedagogical Institute. Herzen and ten years taught Russian language and literature at school. Printed from a year.

Married to Elena Nevzglyadova, a philologist and a poet, performing with verses under the pseudonym Elena Ushakova. Aleasander Kushner is the author of the poetic books “First Impression”, “Night Watch”, “Signs”, “Letter”, “Direct Speech”, “Voice”, “Tauride Garden”, “Daytime Dreams”, “Living Fences”, “On the Smart Star”, “Groce”, “Flying Driving”, “Cold May”, “Cold May”, “Cold May”, “Cold May”, “Cold May”.

Anapest is chosen. "His articles about Russian poetry and essays are published in the books" Apollo in the Snow "," The yarrow "," Wave and stone "," Apollo in the grass "eight books of the chosen poems of A. Kushner:" Canvas "," Poems "with the introduction of D. Likhachev," elected "with the preface of I. Kushner were translated into English Book A. Annenski, O.

Mandelstam, A. Koesjner, J. Brodski; , Amsterdam, on the Serbian "lyrics", as well as on German, Czech, French, Hebrew, Bulgarian, Japanese, etc. About the poetry of A. Kushner was written by I. Rodnyanskaya, E. Yevtushenko, L. Annensky, S. Chupinin, V. Baevsky, S. Vladimirov, E. Nevzglyadov, A. Purin, A. Alyokhin, A. Stolyarov, T. Bek, A. Mashevsky, I. Shaitanov and others.

The twentieth century in Russia was under the sign of great disasters. Alexander Kushner believes that the awareness of the tragic experience and some conclusions made of it are the main thing that makes up the meaning of his poetry. Complaints about life, about her nonsense, just as the romantic opposition of the poet to the crowd seem to him deeply archaic, unproductive.

You are not satisfied with your life, make claims to the universe, dream of “returning the Ticket to the Creator” - there is nothing easier: millions of “dead”, as Mandelstam said, would love to change fate, time and place with you. The twentieth century in Russia taught a person and the poet to cherish with simple things: steam heating warmth, bedding, books on a book shelf, conversation with a friend on the phone, a female smile - all this at any moment could take away and took away from thousands of people.

The question is not whether there is a point in life and whether it is worth living, but how to adequately live this life, to realize, in spite of everything, your abilities. One of the forms of freedom, revealed to man and poetry in the twentieth century is the intellectual and poetic understanding of the tragedy, overcoming it, the ability to return the soul, "dying, in the best form." Poetry is contraindicated, poetry is subject and concrete - in this sense, Alexander Kushner is important the experience of his poetic teachers I.

Annensky, O. Mandelstam, as well as their sympathy for an ordinary person, “old Estonks”, “ordinary riding”. At the same time, A. Kushner is organically close to the orientation of these poets to European cultural achievements, "longing for world culture." Kushner wrote more than once in his essay, asserted in verses the presence of poetry in life itself. Someone made sure that the spring clouds sparkled so tempting and brightly, the lilac bloomed so magnificently, the sea waves were rhythmically noisy, and earthly love meant so much.

Poetry is not a poet’s invention: the poet extracts her from world chaos, from raw material of life, voices and consolidates it in a word. As for formal poetic tasks, A. Kushner is committed to the Russian rhyme, regular verse, the capabilities of which are far from exhausted, the new Russian poetry is young, much younger than their European sisters, it has only three centuries.

And one more important situation: considering the poetic epic, epic forms, including a poem with its narrative intonation and a pre -thought -out plot - an obsolete genre, supplanted by the prose of Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Chekhov, Proust, etc. Kushner focused on the book of poems as a new and most productive genre of lyrical poetry. The book of poems, bypassing the epic, today gives the poet the opportunity to create the most complete, meaningful, really grandiose picture of modern life.

The lyrics are the soul of art, in the direction of the lyrics, for several centuries, not only poetry has been moving, but also prose, and painting, and music, the lyrics are on guard of the interests of a private person, it is its protector in the inhuman world. And this is also one of the main lessons taught to man and poet in the tragic twentieth century.