Bochkova Elvira — writer, author of books of poetry. She lived in Nizhny Novgorod.
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Author of collections of poetry.
Biography
BOCHKOVA ELVIRA LEONIDOVNA (née Polkanova) was born on March 1, 1938, in the The City of Gorky into a family of shipbuilders. Her father, Polkanov Leonid Dmitrievich, was a professor and dean of the Shipbuilding and Physics-Technical Faculty of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute; her mother, Galina Mikhailovna Polkanova, taught at the same institute.
She graduated from the shipbuilding faculty of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute in 1961. She worked as a design engineer at the Volgobaltsudoproekt Central Design Bureau.
Author of twelve poetry collections. Her literary work was blessed by the well-known poets Fyodor Sukhov and Nikolai Starshinov.
Member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
She died on March 20, 2011.
Her daughter, Galina Borisovna Bochkova (Galina Talanova (Galina Borisovna Bochkova)), poet and prose writer, member of the Union of Writers of Russia.
Books
- "Movements of the Soul" (Moscow: Sovremennik, 1980),
- "I Am Coming to You…" (Gorky: Volgo-Vyatskoye Book Publishing House, 1986),
- "Faithful to the Calendar" (N. Novgorod: Volgo-Vyatskoye Book Publishing House, 1992),
- "You Will Be Saved by Love" (Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, N. Novgorod, 1996),
- "The Last Romantics" (Nizhny Novgorod State Technical University, N. Novgorod, 1997),
- "Far and Near" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 1999),
- "Summer of Autumn" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 2001),
- "May Snow" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 2003),
- "The Ninth Book" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 2005),
- "A Woman's Heart in the Breast" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 2007),
- "Accountable for My Age" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 2009),
- "The Way Home" (N. Novgorod: Gladkova O.V. Publishing, 2011).
On the Poet's Work
Nikolai Starshinov: Clear, vivid, elegant, and even expansive! Her verses contain many stanzas built on half-tones, on allusions, on things left unsaid…
Vladimir Vazhdayev: The author draws on the full power of imagination and the achievements of modern Russian verse in order to hold her own in the duel with the everyday, with routine, soulless existence. The fate of the country, of its people, is projected onto the fate of a woman. That is why at times her verse sounds not chamber-like, not intimate, but tragic…
Konstantin Proymin: E. Bochkova's poetic manner is marked by great originality; her books are not for cursory, superficial reading — they demand concentration and reflection.
Albina Gladysheva: This is genuinely feminine poetry — in the special "air" of the poetic stanza, in its complex, largely intuitive microcosm, in which there is no place for harsh masculine pragmatism.
Valery Shamshurin: Bochkova's poems cannot be read in one sitting; they are for thoughtful reading, for the unhurried work of the soul. Only then can such wonderfully expressive poetic finds reveal themselves and astonish, such as what is said of a cuckoo that has fallen silent: "The cuckoo swallowed, in the nearby grove, some edible number…".
Vyacheslav Kharchev: E. Bochkova's poems draw the reader in with the taut passion of an inner world, with the desire to speak out fully, to the very limit where ordinary words no longer suffice and only a barely perceptible chain of associations keeps the feeling anchored to the plane of the real.
Irina Mukhina: For the poet, winter is not merely a rich source of associations. It is a certain important philosophical sign. Exquisite beauty and cold, deadly to all living things — in the contradiction of this symbol Elvira Bochkova, perhaps, finds a reflection of the contradictions of her own soul, whose fiery restlessness so often collides with a thirst for perfection bordering on absolute stillness".
Vladimir Zhiltsov: Bochkova's heart shines with love, and that says, if not everything, then a great deal. Everything has been suffered through, everything lived through. The poet's verses do not belong to her, but once they have broken free of the soul, they open their embrace to everyone who feels the secret and unquenchable call of the spirit. Bochkova's poems are open to us for love and compassion.
Alexander Aseyevsky: Like the vault of heaven, the theme of death and immortality rises above the poems of Elvira Bochkova. And what of Love? It touches with its faithfulness; it is the feeling of beautiful, strong people, a feeling that never loses the force of romantic fire.