Atanas Stoyanov

For me, civic poetry is above all a revelation, above all a confession. If we have to tell the whole truth - that which is not a confession and revelation in the work of a poet cannot bear the sacred name of "the poet's sincerity". I admit that these thoughts can be attacked from many positions, but it is time to start calling things by their true names. In this sense, I am not afraid of any replicas and opponents, as long as there is no desire to distort what I said in this conversation. I have always been impressed by the attempt to mechanically distinguish civic from other themes in the poet's work. There is nothing wrong with this, especially when we consider the existing genre specificity. The bad and condemnable thing is that once the civic position of the artist is separated as a theme, it is often approached as a "special" theme, a "special" theme that can be built with other types of expressive means. You see, some try to assert, this topic is close to the concerns and aspirations of the people, of society, of the party, it cannot be approached intimately, secretly. And because it cannot be approached intimately and secretly, expressing one's own thoughts and feelings, it is approached thesesically, loudly, often dryly and unconvincingly.