Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky

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.

Kuzminsky died in the United States on 2 May 2015.

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

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
• "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

External links

• Konstantyn K. Kuzminsky at the Internet Movie Database