Vladimir Petrovich Burich ( rus, Влади́мир Петро́вич Бури́ч, p=vlɐˈdʲimʲɪr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪdʑ bʊˈrʲitɕ, a=Vladimir Pyetrovich Burich.ru.vorb.oga; August 6, 1932 – August 26, 1994) was a Russian
poet
A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others. A poet may simply be the creator ( thinker, songwriter, writer, or author) who creates (composes) poems (oral or writte ...
.
He grew up in
Kharkiv
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in 1955. He lived in Moscow working as an editor of
Molodaya Gvardiya publishing house. Burich's poetry was occasionally published as early as 1961, but a certain degree of recognition came only in the 1980s and 90s with the appearance of the first collections of Russian
vers libre
Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French ''vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech.
Definiti ...
"Beliy Kvadrat" (lit. ''White Square''), "Vremya Iks" (lit. ''Time X'') and later the Anthology of Russian vers libre. Burich was an ardent supporter of vers libre at a time when it was nearly nonexistent in the
USSR
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. He translated modern Polish, Czech and Serbian poetry into Russian.
The poetry of Vladimir Burich is minimalist, precise and aphoristic, often with both social and philosophical overtones.
Often poignant and somber, Burich' vers libre attempts to contain as much emotion in as few as possible words.
See also
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Russian literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian language, Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were c ...
External links
Vladimir Burich on the page of "Informal Poetry"
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Russian male poets
1932 births
1994 deaths
Moscow State University alumni
20th-century Russian poets
20th-century Russian male writers