
Alexei Maximovich Parshchikov (russian: Алексе́й Макси́мович Па́рщиков) (25 May 1954 – 3 April 2009) was a
Russian poet,
critic
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, and
translator.
Born in
Olga
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Places
Russia
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,
Primorsky Krai,
Russian SFSR to the family of a famous physician, Maxim Reiderman (
:ru:Рейдерман, Максим Исаакович), and a surgeon, L.S. Parschikova, Parshchikov was raised in the
Ukrainian SSR and attended the Kyiv Academy of Agriculture. He spent two years as an agricultural scientist before entering
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute
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History
The insti ...
(graduated in 1981).
In 1993, he received an MA from
Stanford University
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. His dissertation was devoted to the works of
Dmitri Prigov.
Parshchikov was regarded as the major figure of the Meta-metaphorist movement (a Russian poetic movement called by some critics
"Meta-realism"What is Metarealism?
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He resided in Cologne, Germany and died there.
References
External links
PennSound page
Bard Without Borders: for a Russian poet, freedom poses challenges''
This poem by Alexei Parshchikov is translated here as a collaboration between Sergey Levchin, Richard Wayne Chambliss, Jr., and what is described as "Parshchikov's interlinear, editorial feedback from the poet Eugene Ostashevsky".
Alexei Parschikov 1954–2009
This "cyber- tombeau" at ''Silliman's Blog'' by poet Ron Silliman includes comments, tributes, and links
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1954 births
2009 deaths
Russian avant-garde
Russian male poets
Soviet poets
20th-century Russian poets
Soviet male writers
20th-century Russian male writers
20th-century Ukrainian poets
Ukrainian male poets
Maxim Gorky Literature Institute alumni