Музыка на краю: «Тактильные инструменты» как поэтическое завещание Генриха Сапгира

Новое литературное обозрение. 2025. № 4(194). С. 210–226.

Азаренков А. А., Швед Д. О.

The article analyses Genrikh Sapgir’s last poetry collection, Tactile Instruments. The book consists mainly of experimental free verse, prosimetric and heterometric compositions with the inclusion of nonverbal elements such as music and performance. Despite its innovative poetics, Tactile Instruments is conceptually quite traditional. Each cycle of the book is built around one or another pan-European poetological topos (the poet as Creator, poetry as music, supernatural inspiration of creativity, etc.) All these topoi come together in an original meta-plot about the peculiar physical and mental nature of the poet, who transforms himself into an instrument of his own poetry, but does so playfully, even on the brink of death, avoiding a dramatic conflict between literature and life.

Keywords: верлибр, poetology, поэтология, free verse, интермедиальность литературы, literary intermediality

Publication based on the results of: Русский верлибр: антология, типология, исследования (2024)