На берегах Голубой Лагуны: Константин Кузьминский и его Антология. Сборник исследований и материалов

СПб. , Boston : Academic Studies Press / Библиороссика, 2022.

Compiler: И. Кукуй

Konstantin Konstantinovich Kuz’minsky (1940-2015), who, with all of his ordinary provocativeness, signed himself frequently as KKK, was one of the key figures of unofficial literary scene in Leningrad. Prior to his emigration in 1975 he compiled a number of anthologies based on his own massive literary and art archive of Soviet Underground. After he had spent half a year in Vienna and moved to the U.S. in 1976 Kuz’minsky taught at Texas University in Austin and with John Bowlt he founded the Institute of Modern Russian Culture by the Blue Lagoon, which gave its name to the Anthology The Blue Lagoon Anthology of Modern Russian Poetry. After his moving to New York City in 1981 Kuz’minsky arranged his own gallery and an eponymous publishing house “Podval” (“Basement”). Both had to change their locations multiple times, with the last location being a house at the border of Pennsylvania and New York State in the town of Lordville. In 2014 Kuz’minsky left his archive in the Amherst-College Center for Russian Culture. The current publication was based on the seminars where the archive was studied, which took place in Amherst in the years 2017 and 2018. The publication is dedicated to the story of conceptualizing of the Anthology, and to the analysis of its structure, its authors’ art and foremost of the figure of its compiler Kuz’minsky himself.   

Chapters

Антология Константина Кузьминского и Григория Ковалева У Голубой Лагуны как авторский жанр

Михаил Павловец, В кн.: На берегах Голубой Лагуны: Константин Кузьминский и его Антология. Сборник исследований и материалов.: СПб., Бостон: Academic Studies Press / Библиороссика, 2022. С. 336–359.

The article, by comparing two different strategies of compiling poetic anthologies – the one used by Yuri Ivask and the other by Konstantin Kus’minsky, reviews the reasons why the first of the two criticized the “The Blue Lagoon” anthology. It also describes the rules that K. Kuz’minsky followed when he was compiling and composing his ...

Added: September 20, 2022

Keywords: Soviet underground, советский андеграунд, антология, Antology, Konstantin Kuzminsky, Константин Кузьминский