Aleksandr Kushner

Poeticheskij sbornik Aleksandra Kushnera s emotsionalnym nazvaniem "Khorosho imet slona!.." izdajotsja v chest jubileja avtora. V nego vkljucheno vsjo luchshee iz napisannogo poetom dlja detej, vykhodivshee v 70-80-e gody skromnymi tonenkimi knizhechkami, no uzhe stavshee klassikoj, prevrativsheesja v pesni i dazhe multfilmy.Illjustratsii k knige sdelal khudozhnik Evgenij Podkolzin.Dlja doshkolnogo i mladshego shkolnogo vozrasta.Khudozhnik: Podkolzin Evgenij Nikolaevich

Aleksandr Kushner - odin iz luchshikh liricheskikh poetov KHKh veka, avtor pjatidesjati stikhotvornykh knig, rjada esse i statej o klassicheskoj i sovremennoj russkoj poezii. Lirika A.S. Kushnera vyrosla na russkoj klassicheskoj poezii Fedora Tjutcheva, Afanasija Feta, Innokentija Annenskogo, Anny Akhmatovoj, Mikhaila Kuzmina, Osipa Mandelshtama. Glavnyj geroj ego poezii - Dusha. Ona - istochnik ego golosa, nachalo vsekh vpechatlenij. Sama zhizn dlja poeta - pestraja lenta, verenitsa razlichnykh smyslov i simvolov. "Kushner - laodikijskij angel russkoj poezii, tot samyj, kto vvel schaste v objazatelnuju programmu", - skazal o poete literaturoved Andrej Arev. V sbornik "Vremena ne vybirajut" voshli luchshie stikhotvorenija poeta.

Aleksandr Kushner - "odin iz luchshikh liricheskikh poetov XX veka, i ego imeni suzhdeno stojat v rjadu imjon, dorogikh serdtsu vsjakogo, chej rodnoj jazyk russkij"( I. Brodskij). Tvorcheskaja zhizn poeta otdana poezii so vsej polnotoj podlinnogo talanta, iskrennosti i ljubvi k etomu rodu literatury i nevozmozhnosti ne byt predannym emu."Ljubov k stikham delaet cheloveka schastlivej tekh, kto k nim ravnodushen." - pishet v predislovii k etoj knige Aleksandr Kushner.Pered vami izbrannoe poeta za shest desjatiletij poeticheskogo puti, avtora bolee 50 poeticheskikh knig, laureata mnogikh literaturnykh premij, v tom chisle Gosudarstvennoj Pushkinskoj premii (2001), Rossijskoj natsionalnoj premii "Poet" (2005).

"Kushner - odin iz luchshikh liricheskikh poetov XX veka, i ego imeni suzhdeno stojat v rjadu imen, dorogikh serdtsu vsjakogo, chej rodnoj jazyk russkij", - pisal Iosif Brodskij. "Poet zhizni vo vsekh ee projavlenijakh", v svoem tvorchestve on sleduet traditsijam "garmonicheskoj shkoly" i akmeizma s ego "prekrasnoj jasnostju", vnimaniem k detaljam, ottenkam, melocham, iz kotorykh skladyvaetsja volnujuschaja polnota chelovecheskoj zhizni, ee khrupkaja, mimoletnaja krasota. Stikhi Aleksandra Kushnera otmecheny mnogimi literaturnymi premijami, byli perevedeny na drugie jazyki i polozheny na muzyku. V knige predstavleny izbrannye proizvedenija, napisannye v raznye gody zhizni i tschatelno otobrannye avtorom dlja etogo izdanija.

The more softly the word is pronouncedThe more ardent, the more miraculous.The less it dreams of becoming a songThat much nearer it draws to music.-from "Apollo in the Grass" For the Nobel laureate Joseph Brodsky, the poems of Aleksandr Kushner were essential: "Kushner is one of the best Russian lyric poets of the twentieth century, and his name is destined to rank with those close to the heart of everyone whose mother tongue is Russian." Apollo in the Grass is the first collection in English translation of Kushner's post-Soviet poems, and also includes certain earlier ones that could not be published during the Soviet era. Kushner speaks to us from a place where the mythic and the historic coexist with the everyday, where Odysseus is one of us, and the "stern voice" of history can transform any public square into a harrowing schoolroom. This layering of times and events is also embodied in Kushner's distinctive poetic voice. Echoes of earlier Russian poets and styles enrich and complicate an idiom that is utterly natural and contemporary. Now, as in the Soviet era, Kushner's work is especially cherished for its exemplary stoic integrity. But these lyrical poems are also pieces of exquisite chamber music, songs where poetry dazzles but "greatness is . . . sooner scaled to the heart / Than to anything very enormous."