Shmelev Alexey Biography
About the poet Shmelev. I live my own life, I meet people, I love and rejoice, and all this is reflected in my poetry. The monastery and the theater did not become a source of inspiration for my poetry, but when I left the theater for a construction site, poems about God came to me by themselves. Work at the construction site turned out to be a kind of meditation that helped revive creativity.
For me, family and poetry are closely connected. Some believe that it is difficult for poets to have a family, but I do not agree with this. With the advent of the family, poetry has begun. Here is one of the poems that I dedicated to the family: in orange groves a cold fog, through which I make your way to the touch ... which, it would seem, is easier to drink fog in an orange grove with my eyes.
Wake me up tomorrow, in a house with windows to the garden, overwhelmed with light, and a veranda - at the very top of the mountain, look how beautiful and strong my dream is - in it my beloved woman gives me a son. And his eyes are brighter than a thousand suns, and what oranges hang on the branches. I walked here all my life - from dawn to dawn. So many times I imagined this grove-somewhere there ...
And she ended up inside-right in my heart. Which, it would seem, is easier ... I left the theater, but did not give up creativity, and was very devoted to the cultural art project “Male Voice”, which I Ivan Kupreyanov and Vitaly Venikeev created in the year. Moreover, he was so devoted that he was ready to spend money on him, and not earn money. It is more like a hobby than work.
And now it is obvious to me that this project is the best, because the best took part in it - Dima Vagin is already solo, the brilliant Lesha Vdovin can be listed for a long time. Now a new direction has appeared-Z-Poesia, and I do not quite understand what kind of phenomenon this is. She divided poets into soils and Westerners, and, perhaps, Z-poets are just soils.
The former believe that Western values are good, and the latter is that this is not very good. I am of the opinion that Western values are not very good. Because I perfectly understand what values the West is now fighting, which is used to living for centuries at the expense of the resources of the third world countries. In the year I worked on Taganka and undertook to write a script for a documentary play about events in Ukraine.
Then the events in the Donbass were just beginning to develop. I went to the Donbass, to Slavyansk, and saw with my own eyes what happened there and how they began to play a nationalist map. Among other things, I, as a creative person, shocked the abolition of Russian culture. When they refuse Bulgakov, they destroy the monuments to Pushkin and cancel the concerts of Russian composers in Europe.
Everything becomes so absurd that even the Nutcracker was banned. And then it became especially obvious to me that it was impossible to be silent. For eight years, I watched a strange and incomprehensible story unfolded. Grants continued to be heard to the authors of pro -Western projects, and I looked at it and thought: “Guys, what is happening at all?
When he began, the question “for whom I” did not even stand in front of me. I am for my own homeland. There is a difference between poetry and a meaningless spelling of words - living art causes vibration and attracts, while meaninglessness simply mechanically gains words. We want to educate a generation proud of our country. We do not need to look for enemies, they betray themselves.
We must continue to develop, defeat indifference and empty words.