Poems About Us: An Evening of Poetry. Alexander Kushner and Dmitry Bykov

THIS MATERIAL (INFORMATION) HAS BEEN PRODUCED BY THE FOREIGN AGENT DMITRY LVOVICH BYKOV, CONTAINED IN THE REGISTER OF FOREIGN MASS MEDIA ORGANIZATIONS CARRYING OUT THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT, ON 29.07.2022.

“Alexander Kushner is one of those rare Russian poets who are already today called a classic. And yet he remains a living person: unpredictable, sometimes sharp, uncomfortable—and therefore often provoking hostility.”

At a creative evening at “Pryamaya Rech” — the real, “live” Kushner. First, he reads his own poems himself. Then Dmitry Bykov reads them—and this manner of reading brings the author to outrage and makes him loudly argue and protest.

Alexander Kushner, the poet and beloved teacher of Dmitry Bykov, comes from Saint Petersburg to Moscow for just one day.