Between poetics and poetry. A few remarks about poems by Gleb Glinka

Abstract

The article is an attempt of deepened reading of a few chosen poems by Gleb Glinka, the Russian poet of the second emigration wave. As a professional literary scholar, dealing with the poem theory in particular, he was familiar with all versification techniques and used to apply them in his poetry with great mastery. In his poetic arsenal he had lexical games (juggling with the meaning of words), syntax innovations, as well as different intertextual references: irony, pastiche, parody, literary polemics, numerous reminiscences etc. Although he stood on a traditional ground of poetics rules, in reality Glinka was in fact modern, more often than not using poetic means of avantgarde and post avant-gardism.