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The poet Vasily Lomakin (b. 1958) was awarded the prize by Andrei Bely for the book “Subsequent Texts” (Argo Risk, Book Review, 2012). Vasily Lomakin lives in Washington, but writes about another country, “covered with the Vlasov mattress”, looking at it “not because of the ocean, but God the news from where” . In the book “Russian Shadows” (UFO, 2004), he erected such a monument to himself:
And grief does not burn, and death does not die -
Horace is devouring the monuments
Yes, the sky is new here. Hello flies here
And the pyramids are expired
And the cesarye wails the right
And the words will be a boorish nonsense
What happened is no longer happening
And he forgets less
How are you and me, as and no
I suggested Vasily Lomakin to answer 12 questions, completing the year of endless light.
- The poet Vasily Lomakin was not born simultaneously with you, he himself is your work. Maybe a double, maybe a son, maybe a shadow. When he was born and what is your relationship with him?
- Do you live in Russia, outside Russia, under Russia, over it?
- I would like, of course, in all positions at once, although everyone has a separate charm. As for “B” - of course, he would like to sound in Russian acoustics, everything is written under it. I would like to be “outside” that it has no aesthetic effectiveness: for example, Russian average cultural poems. “Under” and “above” already, it seems, follow from “B” and “outside” ...
-And you are satisfied with the echo that Russian acoustics responsible for Vasily Lomakin, or would you like it to sound differently?
- I am very glad that this acoustics are generally alive, after all. I don’t need another, I would like to work in it further.
- In which of the fragments of the Russian mirror - pre -Soviet, Soviet, current - are you best reflected?
- In where the Russian modern is located, in time coincided with the early Soviet period. This fragment reflects well, because it is strong and unchanged: the syllable of the best poets of Art Nouveau, from Klyuyev to Vvedensky, remained uniquely authorized. Their language was not destined to naturally spend and, becoming a banal one, disappear in their poetic quality, to reaches the background of usually for certain poetic figures. Also, at lower levels, their poetics escaped profaning and propagation by mass poems, for stylization were unsuitable and could not be mastered by post -modern. The time for such poets stopped (or it came again that the same thing), and their syllable will remain effective forever.
- Does Vasily Lomakin with Konstantin Vaginov, Yuri Odarchenko, George Ivanov or have another family?
-I can’t say about GI, and the features of a poetic resemblance to KV and Yuo at VL took shape in Soviet times, when he knew two quatrains from some novel by G. Gora, and did not know about Yuo at all. Therefore, stylization, conscious or unconscious is unlikely. Perhaps the point is the community of a natural poetic apparatus, giving a similar tone to the verses of such different people as KV, Yuo and Vl. Of the common-and-aimedly human properties common to the South Suits and Enterprise, domestic foolishness should be noted, and from the general conditions for their implementation-emigration. As for KV, it is interesting that the greatest resemblance to him at the VL is manifested by aleator texts composed of words randomly selected by the computer from the sum of texts of the same overhead control system. One of them, “Pictures throughout the country, were afraid” will appear in the next issue of the Mitin magazine. Surprisingly: such a subtle thing as intonation is formed literally from the dust, troublemaken and non-discourse, from accidentally arising connections between words, identified by the author-reader as figures of a poetic language.
- Household foolishness? Vasily Lomakin wanders around the Capitol with the rattle of the leaked?
- For this they can be a tazer. Almost immediately after the Capitol, African-American quarters begin, so the police are nervous there. Not far and the old, terrible psychiatric hospital for chronicles, where Ezra Pound languished. I am much more modest: I answer household questions in rhyme, often a Bley Sheep, I try to speak Chinese in a Chinese restaurant.
- Why in the world of the Washington poet Vasily Lomakin there is no America, even there is almost no English language (but there is French)?
- It was from French that the Russian language received, among other things, the mythological apparatus of antiquity, secular rhetoric and samples of classical poetry; All that gave expressive means to the general cultural and poetic language. For this reason, the French language is included in the area of my responsibility on the same grounds as, for example, the Karamzinsky or Old Slavonic lexical layer of the Russian language. I know and love English poetry well, but it does not matter for my work.
- White for me is super -reduced as a poet, prose writer and theorist. Most often I re -read the “second symphony”, “glossolali” and “the emblem of meaning”. Some verses from his book “Pepels” seem to me an unattainable example of the perfection of the composition.
- What book would you advise General Vlasov if you met him three days before the execution?
-The parable of the incorrect manager (the Gospel of Luke (16: 1-9)), where the clerk forgives debts to the debtors of the owner, with the expectation that when the owner will dismiss him for such cases, the debtors will take him "to his own houses." The Lord puts this clerk as an example to His disciples. This work shows a political economy of the production of sacred from betrayal. I am sure that this parable would console Vlasov in his last days.
- One of the cycles of “ Russian shadows ” is called DXM. Now, 10 years later, is the experience of communicating with this cough winner important to you?
-DXM-dissociative substance and enterogen (from other Greek. "Deifying from the inside"). Nature with its help shows us hidden from the subjective "I" part of consciousness. In this way, the elements and their relationships should be compared with the meaning, for example, to call the name; Then they will become a symbolically implemented thing, that is, a myth, and the “I” who called them by God. DXM himself can also offer entities to names or emblems, that is, to write elementary symbolist verses. Unfortunately, after about the twentieth session, tolerance begins, and 10 years later I only had a memory of lost paradise.
- Why KitchenDick ? Which of the two meanings of this word did you try on yourself?
- This word is striking in its absurdity, outside the connection with the meaning. I took it as a talisman, for driving a shaitan. In verses, the language mechanism strives to attribute the whole high, beautiful and terrible figure of the author and this puts the artist in the Pharisee or comic position. A man of mass (or capital) has the right to ask, for example, "And who are you, nits?" Then the answer is ready for him.
“If Shaitan destroyed your poems, but spared only one thing, what would he leave?”
- The choice of shaitan is as follows:
Shouted, dying, hare
I don't want to go to Aud, I want to