Bakhyt Shkurullaevich Kenjeev (Kenzheev) (born on 2 August 1950 Shymkent

Shymkent

Shymkent , formerly known as Chimkent , is the capital city of South Kazakhstan Province, the most populated region in Kazakhstan. It is the third most populous city in Kazakhstan behind Almaty and Astana with a population of 629,600 . A major railroad junction on the Turkestan-Siberia Railway, the...

, Kazakhstan

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) is a Russian poet

Poet

A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary...

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Life

In 1953 his parents moved to Moscow. He graduated from Lomonosov Moscow State University with a degree in chemistry. In 1975 he was a founding member of the "Moscow Time" group of poets, with Alexei Tsvetkov

Alexei Tsvetkov

Alexei Petrovich Tsvetkov is a Russian poet and essayist. Not to be confused with Alexei Vyacheslavovich Tsvetkov , a younger journalist, an editor of Limonka newspaper.-Biography:Alexei Tsvetkov grew up in Zaporizhia and briefly studied chemistry at the Odessa...

, Alexander Soprovsky, and Sergey Gandlevsky.

He appeared at the 2006 Blue Metropolis Montreal festival.
He lives in Montreal

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, New York City

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, and Moscow

Moscow

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English Translations

• "Rain Pours Down in Rome, Repeating", West Branch, J. Kayes, Bucknell University

Poetry

• Избранная лирика 1970—1981 (1984 г.)
• Осень в Америке (1988 г.)
• Стихотворения (1995 г.)
• Сочинитель звезд: Книга новых стихотворений, М. 1997 (ISBN 5-85767-091-8)
• Снящаяся под утро: Книга стихотворений, М. 2000 (ISBN 5-900241-09-2)
• Из семи книг: Стихотворения, Независимая газета, М. 2000 (ISBN 5-86712-027-9)
• Невидимые: Стихи, М. 2004 (ISBN 5-94282-229-8)
• Вдали мерцает город Галич: Стихи мальчика Теодора, 2006 (ISBN 5-94128-126-9)
• Крепостной остывающих мест (2008)

Novels

• Плато (1992 г.)
• Иван Безуглов. Мещанский роман (1993 г.)
• Золото гоблинов: Романы («Младший брат», «Золото гоблинов»), Независимая газета, М 2000, (ISBN 5-86712-101-1)

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