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Vladimir Klimov
формоЯчество
Form-I-made
Moscow: Goppe, 2001
225 x 152 mm. pages nn.
Edition: 20, copy № 5/20 with an autograph by the author

Goppe befriended the poet and essayist
Vladimir Klimov (1951-2010) in the late
1990s and published not only his poetry but
also two albums of his drawings. Klimov was
born in Moscow where his father, Mendel N.
Khaiet, worked as a sculptor. His parents
decided to name him after his mother, Nina
Klimova, an art historian, as father’s name
sounded too Jewish and being of Jewish
descent was not very advantageous in the
Soviet Union at the time. During his youth,
Klimov became acquainted with the theatre
and with the works of Berthold Brecht, to
whose works Klimov engaged himself and
he even had a Brecht museum opened. In
his poetical work, Klimov invented his own
ideas about the construction of society. His
poems are a product of his poetical, artistic
and mystical activity. “A new idea makes the
poet, even if it doesn’t rhyme”, is one of his
favourite sayings.

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