I lived from 1904-1941.
I was from Russia, and am in the European category.
I was influenced by poet Daniil Ivanovich Kharms.
A Russian poet and playwright, Vvedensky along with Daniil Kharms became one of the ringleaders of a group of writers known as Oberiu or the Russian absurdists.
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Vvedensky's writings are usually long and consist of monologues of an anti-metaphor structure. Some of his most common were "animals too are clocks" and "the sky became empty and clean like the sky".
The Oberiu made their work public in performances where poetry reading alternated with circus acts, arguments, singing, screaming and general ruckus. After one heated show, the newspapers took to accusing them, in increasingly hysterical tones, of counter-revolutionary attitudes and activities. The illogic of their work was seen as a deliberate attempt to confuse the proletariat. Vvedensky and Kharms were both arrested in 1931 and sentenced to internal exile but were released after serving only a year each.
Once they were released there were to be no more performances, so the group would meet and read any new work to each other and hold philisophical conversations.
In 1936, Vvedensky married and moved to Kharkov in the Ukraine. 1937 continued the "Great Purge" and in 1941 Germany invaded the Soviet Union. There were fresh arrests of anyone deemed potentially subversive, and Kharms and Vvedensky had political records. The Soviet police came for Vvedensky during the evacuation of Kharkov. He died in December 1941, apparently of dysentery in a cattle car headed for Siberia.
Bibliography source: SovLit.com
My poetry
Kuprianov and his dear lady Natasha after walking
those swinish guests to the door prepare for bed
226 lines, 1 comment
the joyful man Franz
maintained protuberance
104 lines
Above the dark good sea
the boundless air rushed here and there,
145 lines
to make everything clear
live backwards
112 lines
snow lies
earth flies
93 lines
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