Open courtyards

Vladimir Aristov (b. 1960) - poet, prose writer, essayist. The author of nine books of poems and the novel “An eyewitness prediction” (2004), articles and essays on the philosophy of poetry and individual poets (Pasternak, Kavafis) Prize laureate Alexei Kruchens (1993), Andrei Bely awards (2008) and the Difference Awards (2016) Aristov’s poems belong to the metarealistic direction in poetry (Alexey Parshchikov, Ivan Zhdanov, Ilya Kutik) In the circle of Arista metarealists, along with Arkady Dragomoshchenko, the most “Western” wing: the roots of his individual manner go into the poetry of Rilke, Italian, and Greek poets of the beginning of the 20th century. Aristov prefers an uniform verse, but more often white than free, since melodic inertia is very important for him, the division of sound in itself. Aristov’s property world is most ethereal, consists of vaguely distinguishable large objects: light, shadow, river - however, they are all metarealistically understood as full -fledged participants in the dialogue