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

performance poet Performance poetry is a broad term, encompassing a variety of styles and genres. In brief, it is poetry that is specifically composed for or during a performance before an audience. During the 1980s, the term came into popular usage to describe ...

. Born in

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Kuzminsky emigrated from the

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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 Andrei Zagdansky (born March 9, 1956) is an transnational independent documentary filmmaker and producer originally from Ukraine. Biography Zagdansky attended Kiev State Institute of Theatrical Arts, graduating in 1979. He worked as a film directo ...

: Vasya, a portrait of a close friend and Russian/

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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. Kuzminsky died in the United States on 2 May 2015. Poets Hedwig Gorski and Konstantyn Kuzminsky

Poets Hedwig Gorski and Konstantyn Kuzminsky

References

*KUZ'MINSKIĬ, K. K., KOVALËV, G. L., & BOWLT, J. E. (1980). The Blue Lagoon anthology of modern Russian poetry. Newtonville, Mass, Oriental Research Partners.

External links

Upstate Quest for a Russian Soul; The Avant-Garde, Bearing Bread, Seeks Out a Mentor
By Susan Sachs New York Times
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

External links

* Russian male poets 1940 births 2015 deaths American people of Russian descent People from Delaware County, New York 20th-century Russian poets 20th-century Russian male writers {{Russia-poet-stub