The real name of the poet is purely Ossetian - Zapoyev. He was born in February 1955 in the family of a Soviet army officer and teacher. He studied after graduating from high school at the Moscow Regional Pedagogical Institute at the Faculty of History and Philology. Timur Kibirov, whose biography was almost always associated with art, was the editor-in-chief of the Pushkin magazine, worked for NTV, for the Kultura radio, in the editorial board of the Literary Review magazine, and was engaged in translations from Ossetian.
His poems were constantly published in various publications - at least two dozen of these magazines and almanacs, including: "Theater Life", "New World", "Continent", "Friendship of Peoples", "Twinkle", "Banner". A notable collection of publications was collected in a short time by Timur Kibirov, a poet. Many people saw photos of the modern celebrity in these magazines, and even before reading his poems, almost everyone came to the conclusion that this person is kind.
Style
According to the critic V. Kuritsyn, the poems written by Timur Kibirov certainly provoke bright tears from the reader, and the poet has two mechanisms for this: childish Soviet aesthetics and an inescapable faith in the beautiful. According to the literary historian A. S. Nemzer, the poetics of Kibirov is a grand thematic mixture - from rain and fall of leaves to civil unrest and hungover longing - the whole, as it is, God's world conveyed by the language of real poetry, which also has everything: rage and tenderness , abuse and affection, song and slogan, light and darkness. Like any real poetic language, it is blissfully meaningless and at the same time extremely precise.
The work of Timur Kibirov always causes controversy in the literary environment: some consider him the best tragedian of our time, others see him as a singer of the philistine consciousness. Most likely, critics, as always, are right even in the most polar opinions. After all, the poetry that Timur Kibirov brings to us, like two dissimilar metals densely fused in a crucible, is now unknown what it is: gold or copper, tradition or modernity. Nevertheless, the poet’s fame is largely due to the opinions of colleagues and the attention of critics. And Timur Kibirov is a very famous poet, not deprived of opinions and attention. A word to colleagues.
Sergey Gandlevsky
Gandlevsky believes that Timur Kibirov, a poet who arrived on time, was precisely why he was heard in our modern disunity, when people are passionate about new interests and their own concerns. He is a restless and gambling artist, for whom literature is not a reserve; for the poet, it is a testing ground where one can settle accounts with art, society and fate. Timur Kibirov took all these partly amusing fights very seriously: in his verses he believes in the Word, and in sacrifice, and devotion to literature.
The aesthetics of postmodernism, which Timur Kibirov took note of and followed after only externally, playing with styles, quotations, remained alien to him internally. There is no aesthetic fatigue in his poems, cool people, sore eyes, there is only poetic fire and ardor of the author. What is now considered bad form is adolescent impetuosity, for example, is part of Timur Kibirov’s bright manner along with other catchy signs of his style, and this impetuosity does not look indecent in Kibirov’s. Imitators of such a synthesis can not be mastered.
"Rebel Reverse"
Further, Gandlevsky says that Timur Kibirov in his poetry is a militant reactionary, due to this, too, he is provided with poetic loneliness. The traditional romantic position and routine pose of a literary rebel, a lawless person and a loner, Kibirov is not only not interesting, he confronts them.
The poet was almost the first to feel that the poetic rebellion had become ridiculous and provincial, because lawless poets had been sovereign for a long time, and the "world binge" had become such a way of life that the understanding of the impossibility of such an existence of things came. One should not call for a free man, ”Kibirov realized,“ one needs to keep order and good manners. ”
"Back to the Future"
Sergei Gandlevsky believes that the poet’s observation is driven by hostility filled with love, because in its pure form the indignation is obscure. Kibirov reflects and finds refuge the whole cruel and wretched Soviet world, while the past is now forgotten willingly and swiftly.
That's when those who prefer Pepsi completely supersede the Soviet-era newspeak by Americanized slang, the price will not be this kibirovsky encyclopedia of the dead language. Many of the poems of this author are real verbal panache, fun, pretty youth, but this love of life is redundant, like genre Rabelaisianism. Excessive strength pushes Kibirov to new literary adventures.
Leonid Kostyukov
The famous poet, prose writer and critic Leonid Kostyukov recalls how in the eighties Timur Kibirov literally stunned the Moscow audience of poetry lovers with a rare verse device, when for the most part it is funny, and the overall impression is seriousness itself. The author boldly varies genres and themes, but the poetic system does not break from this.
They say that poetry is incomprehensible for what they love. This does not apply to many poets, including Kibirov. Not because he does not have poetry, but because she visually presents her virtues: mind, humor, taste, accuracy, measure, culture. His poems are polemical, but he does not argue with readers, but with someone else's and stupid. And the reader is always on the side of the poet in its entirety.