Лирика

Let me begin with an observation of my own. As editor-in-chief of the literary magazine "Obzor", which is published in foreign languages, I came across a significant fact. A serious positive response, a particularly pronounced interest are aroused abroad by those of our poets who possess a precious sense of the new, who are authors of civically significant poetry and achieve their artistic independence. This poetry, specific in its address, with a greater political sound, communicates much more closely with the foreign reader than poetry closed within the framework of very personal and unclear experiences. Despite the difficult-to-overcome barrier of translation, this poetry carries the artistic truth about us, about life in a socialist country, and that is precisely why it has its attractive power even in countries where poetry is a prisoner of completely opposite trends.

I think that many Bulgarian poets could rightly take part in this conversation. With the wealth of their literary experience, they would enrich our conversation. I will try to answer the questions posed, based not so much on my personal creative practice as on some observations on our poetry.