Biography of the Kurgan poets

After graduating from the Kurgan Machine-Building Institute in the year, it received a distribution to the regional association "Agricultural Institute", where for three years he worked as a technologist. Since the year, journalism has become his profession. He worked as an editor, a commentator at the Kurgan guest radio company. For more than 10 years he was preparing programs for young people.

Was one of the creators of the now very popular information program "TV-review". Leonid Blumkin author of the two poetic collections of “Vitk Time” South Ural Book Publishing House, Chelyabinsk, and “MiGsing” Publishing House “Periodic”, G. Kurgan, in the year of the Petersburg publishing house “Aletaea” published the fourth collection of poems by Leonid Blumkin in the series “Russian Abroad”.

The new book of Leonid Blumkin included both the well -known works of the poet and the new verses written in recent years. They have pictures of post -war childhood and youth, signs of a provincial life, impressions of emigration, and nostalgic motifs. The main "hero" of the poetry of L. Blumkin is time; The main topic is a person in time, his well -being in different periods of life.

Sometimes his poems speak of completely prosaic things, but the poetic line rises above everyday life, life is transformed into being, and joy and sadness are melted into experience and philosophical thoughts. Leonid Moiseevich - laureate of the regional journalistic prize named after Purina G. currently lives in Germany. In the Union of Writers of Russia has been consisting of a year.

A person has a soul - this is a fact! The poet Leonid Blumkin came from Germany to Kurgan to say that we have nothing to share. It seems that nothing special does not say anything special, but it’s interesting to listen to him. This is the poet Leonid Blumkin, our fellow countryman, a segment of his fate after sixty living in Germany. Maybe that's why the interest in him in the small homeland is so great?

How many listeners gathered - the full hall of Yugovka. No, it is not a matter of idle curiosity to the “stranger” not a stranger to us, it is in interest in the personality, creative, doubtful, spiritually rich personality. Blumkin is not only interesting to listen, but also to read. And this, as you know, is not the same thing. To the Kurgan “From Hamburg to Kurgan - what is the distance of a literary evening dedicated to this collection and, of course, the poet himself, and took place just in the regional library.

The reconciliation name of the book, according to the author, is due to his disagreement with the fact that we, in our division of property, houses, lands, the separation of people by nationality, religions, states, and political views reached the point of absurdity. The poetry of Blumkin, simple in shape and tongue, but possessing some elevated sadness, pushes into the background and even further all this fuss around the deeds, all addictions, all the supposedly great goals in the face of the main thing for a person-touching the soul, to its discovery.

For example, this feeling arises for me when reading an unrelated poem from Leonid Blumkin’s collection “All earthly” year. The one that was silent, not breathing, how does the soul differ from the brave shell - the body? A person has a soul, it is the main thing in it, and this is a fact that is not subject to doubt. And sadness arises because I clearly understand: it hurts, screams, trembles.

She helps me to live and she burns out life. By the way, the new book, which saw the light in the series “Russian abroad” of the St. Petersburg publishing house “Aletaea”, under a reconciliation heading, has a subtitle - “Favorites”. And it includes not only new poems, but also from the previous five collections of Leonid Blumkin, published in Chelyabinsk, Kurgan and St.

Petersburg-“Vitkoy Time”, “The MIG OF AND MIG”, “All the Earth”, “Autumn Bonfires”, “In the constellations of the Sagittarius” this is only chronology, the external construction of the book. Inwardly, she holds on, I repeat, on the main thing - on the state of the soul. I Blumkin and I are old acquaintances, together in 60 E began in the literary association "Youth" with a long -blank regional youth newspaper.

Obviously experiencing tender friendly feelings for each other, met “professionally”: without delving into the content, praised their collections for the covers and exchanged them. With my books “Provincial Chronicler” and “Vocabulary”, Leonid signed my volume to me: you and I are provincials, here is our house and our flock. You served a lot for the "vocabulary".

I hope that the reader excuses me for being distracted by personal. And the meeting in Yugovka, meanwhile, went on its own way: the poet read his poems, the listeners listened and applauded. And then they asked questions. For example, such: “Are you printing in Germany? Are your poems translated into German, do you transfer from German into Russian? Or they asked: “How do you write?

But our guest already begins without irony from afar: he first wrote “under Mezhirov, Vinokurov, Samoilov”, over time, the coordinates of poetic influence changed, Evtushenko and Voznesensky became closer.From this point of view, the story of the creation of the poem “My interlocutor is famous for other names and nostalgic verses about the times of youth, about friends and neighbors, about the Kurgan streets with plank huts, about his teachers can be considered that the poetic homeland of Leonite Blumkin is the 60s of the twentieth century.

However, in addition to nostalgia for times, Blumkin also had classical nostalgia - in his homeland. This is natural for a person who was in the West at 60 years old. His soul is tormented by asking himself: “Why am I here? You sympathize with the poet, empathize with his suffering. It is only gratifying that emigrant motifs did not affect the work of Leonid Blumkin qualitatively.

He convinces us that art, poetry is not just higher than politics, they are able to completely ignore the political situation. Blumkin writes at home, without amendments to "Alien shores". No political cataclysms cancel the laws of world harmony, which the soul seeks to comprehend. And a person definitely has it! Portnyagin, Valery.

This poet has his own topic, his own unique lyrical voice. There is also the main thing: a kind and courageous talent, supported by remarkable skill. Nevertheless, every new book for the poet is always an exam. Before a strict reader, in front of himself. I am sure that he will excite and touch, because Leonid Blumkin is a true poet, as they say, from God, in his word, both beauty and melody lives, because this is true.

The truth is that the white sheet over which the poets languish remains for him always both pain and joy, and even hope and light, associated with wisdom, depth. Time will come and the light will drop.