Светом.
Е.С.: В заключение интервью, что бы Вы хотели пожелать нашим читателям?
А.К.: Познать себя, найти свой Путь и идти по Нему, отдавая в мир Свет, Добро и Любовь.
Интервью провел Евгений Викторович СТЕПАНОВ,
Президент Союза писателей XXI века,
поэт, литератор, кандидат филологических наук.
Журнал «ДЕТИ РА» №11/2010
Журнальный зал «ГОРКИ МЕДИА»
E. V. Stepanov, «Love doesn’t demand anything» (Interview with the author)
Today our guest is Alexandra Kryuchkova, poet, writer, artist, author of 17 published books of poetry, as well as co-author of more than 60 collective editions, member of the Union of Writers of Russia, the International Association of Citizens of the Arts (Spain), the regional public fund for the promotion of modern poetry «Svetoch», the Open Literary Club «Response», etc.
For faithful service to the national literature, she was awarded literary prizes of A. S. Griboedov, V. V. Mayakovsky, A. P. Chekhov, etc. She got a diploma of O. E. Mandelstam as a laureate of the poetry contest «Gallery of Selected Poems» in the nomination «Philosophy of the Soul».
Alexandra Kryuchkova is interviewed by Evgeny Stepanov.
E.S.: Alexandra, first of all, please tell us a little about yourself…
A.K.: I was born and live in Moscow. I started writing poetry and prose at about the age of eleven. I remember that my mother was categorically against my «creativity», because she believed that the fate of all poets was far from the best, and she was probably right. But I continued to write without thinking about what I was writing for. It was an urgent need of the soul for self-expression. I was just following my own Path. Every person in this world is a creator.
E.S.: How do you come up with poems?
A.K.: Sometimes they come on their own. First you feel vibration at a certain frequency, it is always different, then the lines come. As a rule, you don’t know what will be in the next line, what you will hear about, what you will write down. But it doesn’t happen always that way. Sometimes you just need to throw out on paper what has accumulated inside, then first it’s a feeling, which then turns into words.
E.S.: Do you have any favorite poets?
A.K.: The poetry of the Silver Age is closest to my soul. As a child, when I sang in a church choir, I read Blok, then I discovered Akhmatova, Tsvetaeva and Mayakovsky. It’s difficult to single out any person and his works in its entirety, rather, some poems by various poets…
E.S.: You write poems on different topics, but poems about love prevail. What does love mean to you?
A.K.: Love is a feeling that is familiar to everyone, although everyone understands it in their own way. Love for me personally is the most important feeling in life. It can be different: love between a man and a woman, love for parents, for children, for God, for nature, and so on. When a person is filled with love, no matter what kind of it, he is able to create miracles. The power of love is the greatest power in the world. It’s stronger than death. Love is Life, and the absence of Love is Death. The power of Love in me speaks in verse.
E.S.: Should love be mutual?
A.K.: It’s wonderful when love is mutual, but True Love doesn’t demand anything in return and doesn’t even ask for it; one’s soul needs to grow up to such Love, going through fire, water and copper pipes. Unfortunately, most people are accustomed to living in order to consume, and if they give, they want to take something in return.
E.S.: One of your recent books is «Playing Another Reality», a very mystical and esoteric one. Why did you name it that way?
A.K.: Many people believe that Another Reality is a game. People think that Alice, the main character, is playing, but in fact, people are playing. They play different games in the Earthly Reality. Alice lives in Another Reality without playing. It’s like a look from Another Reality to the Earthly one.
E.S.: Alice walks barefoot on broken glass and hot coals, ends up in the Temple of the Soul, listens to the Music of the Spheres, and merges with Heavens. Is this book based on real events?
A.K.: Even as a child, I was told by a person, «Never write about something that you haven’t gone through yourself,» although there is some fiction in the book.
E.S.: Alice is a clairvoyant. Can you predict events?
A.K.: At the age of eleven I visited the place where people usually don’t return from, and after that the knowledge of upcoming events sometimes really comes down to me from There.
E.S.: Despite possessing this gift, Alice is unhappy. Why?
A.K.: The Open Door to the Space where there is information about everything, or, in other words, «hypersensitivity», as a rule, doesn’t make life easier and doesn’t bring happiness in itself. I knew about the upcoming death of my parents, but I couldn’t change anything.
E.S.: So is the future predetermined?
A.K.: Not exactly. The future is multivariate, being created by a person every second, every moment, with every word, deed or lack thereof, which instantly affects the future. Every step a person takes changes the possible options of the future, which are like an open fan. But at some point you just know that at a given period of time in a particular situation there is only one option left, no other options. If this case, you can’t change anything. You just have to take it for granted, and this is the most difficult thing in life.
E.S.: One of the main characters is «The Man Who Was Not». You don’t even give him a name. Does he still exist in our earthly reality or not?
A.K.: This question is asked to me by almost everyone who has read the book.
