Konstantin Kuzminsky

Russian poet (1940–2015)

Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuzminsky (16 April 1940 – 2 May 2015) ( Russian: Kонстантин Константинович Кузьминский) was a Russian performance poet.

Born in Leningrad, Kuzminsky emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1978. He published "The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry". Other publications include a collection of Russian poetry "The Living Mirror". He appeared in several documentary films, among them two by Andrei Zagdansky: Vasya, a portrait of a close friend and Russian/Soviet nonconformist artist Vasily Sitnikov and Konstantin and Mouse (a.k.a. "Kostya and Mouse"), a double-portrait of Konstantin Kuzminsky and his wife Emma, nicknamed "Mouse".

Konstantin Kuzminsky died in the United States on 2 May 2015, aged 75.[1]

Kuzminsky and American performance poet Hedwig Gorski in Austin, Texas, 1979.

References

  1. ^ Ney, Joel (3 July 2015). "K. K. Kuzminsky, iconic cultural patriarch of the Soviet Émigré community, has died". ArtDaily. Retrieved 5 July 2015.

Sources

The Blue Lagoon - Konstantin Kuzminsky and his Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry by Ilya Kukuj Academic Studies Press. Newtonville, Massachusetts: Oriental Research Partners; ISBN 9798887190167

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External links

  • Upstate Quest for a Russian Soul; The Avant-Garde, Bearing Bread, Seeks Out a Mentor By Susan Sachs New York Times
  • "Kostya and Mouse", a documentary by Andrei Zagdansky
  • IMDB.com entry referencing K. Kuzminsky as himself credit in the A. Zagdansky documentary
  • "The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry", current on-line version

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