Dana Sideros: photo, biography, creativity of the poetess

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

The virtual age is changing people. The real world generates many reflections in it. The person hides the name with pseudonyms. Real life stories, reflected in the crooked mirror of fantasy, give rise to pseudo-biographies. In the world of literature, this is welcome - to live as to create. It was in this way, incognito, that the poetess Kustovskaya Maria Viktorovna, who writes under the pseudonym Dana Sideros and nickname LLLYTNIK, published her works on the LIVEJOURNAL website. However, the young lady - "The Joker" often pleasantly surprises her admirers with deep, original, philosophical lines.

Two biographies

In 1985, in Bulgaria, in the small seaside town of Beloslav, the virtual poetess Dana Sideros was born. Her biography is connected with the family moving to the USSR. Then Dana was only 2 years old. Since 2003, the girl has been living in Moscow. He has been writing poetry since the 1990s exclusively in Russian. Dana Sideros worked as a print designer for the now-defunct End of an Era anthology. So the mission is youngvirtual grinder - to hide for the time being the fact that her real incarnation comes from Russia writes poetry.

In the same 1985, when Coca-Cola entered the USSR market with its products, Madonna released the disc Like a Virgin, and Secretary General Gorbachev at the April plenum for the first time said the word "perestroika" in Kazan, another girl, Kustovskaya, was born Maria Viktorovna.

The poetess graduated from art school and is still working as an illustrator. In 2008, she published her first collection of poems. Critics noted her "surprisingly idiosyncratic sense of language". She is a laureate of the Nova poetry award, a participant in poetry concerts and festivals. In 2014, Maria was awarded the Debut Prize in the Dramaturgy nomination.

Answering correspondents' questions about the future fate of the "split personality", the poetess, to the delight of her fans, decided to continue using the pseudonym Dana Sideros, without stopping the publication of new products in LIVEJOURNAL.

Who is she?

Maria is an unpretentious person who writes from the heart. This makes her close to her readership. She is a type of hero of our time, a girl who came to "make herself" in the metropolis. The poetess is not attached to various kinds of commercialism, preferring the level of poetry to regalia.

Ironically about the projection of Goethe's famous quote on herself, that the one who has nothing to lose is terrible, Maria claims that she is exactly that.

The personal position of the creator, who does not destroy his talent in pursuit of the fetish of fame, is todaythe only honest one for a working poet. Real recognition itself finds worthy. The publication of collections for Maria Kustovskaya is not an end in itself, but a consequence of creativity.

The work is a visiting card

In literary circles, they started talking about her when one of her poignant poems became known to the general public. Critics remembered the presented name of the author - Dana Sideros.

Such verses give me goosebumps. There is figurativeness here, a three-syllable foot with the first stressed syllable (dactyl) seems to fall in time with the reader's heartbeat. What a piercing start to this piece! It authorially and originally raises the theme of indigo children and parents - mundane, rooted and zombified by a difficult life, stupefying earning their daily bread.

This verse should be heard by every parent, open the video, where they announce: "Dana Sideros "Children leave the city"", and listen carefully as the young woman, the author of the work, reads it with inspiration.

For thinking listeners, it will tell not about the physical escape of children (although this, unfortunately, happens), but about their categorical rejection of the morality of the older generation, their way of life.

Maria Kustovskaya, a poetess known as Dana Sideros (photo below) conveys the idea of a poem to her listeners, on the only right level - intuitive, which is revealed with the help of metaphor.

This is exactly the bittera truth that shocks many parents. It says: for the arrangement of children's lives, the logic and experience of elders in the 21st century have ceased to be primary.

The indigo generation is above their level of intelligence, they need the experience of their fathers not as a road map for life, but only as an additional guide, nothing more. The elders should come to terms with this and recklessly not rush to “break about the knee” the personalities of their children.

Second collection, first verse

Her first collection "The Jokes Are Over" was remembered and loved by readers for the subtle and heartfelt rhyme of the poem "Orpheus".

An event in culture was the publication of the next collection on behalf of Dana Sideros "The Fool's Apprentice". The title of the work was chosen to be emphatically unpretentious, but Kustovskaya hit them not in the eyebrow, but in the eye, presenting herself to the poetic community in a new way. It includes works that have long been sorted out on the Internet by her admirers for quotes.

Opens his poem "Fifty", which sounds like a sentence to the fifth race ("fathers"):

The lines of iambic say that Evil and Good in the world are 50 to 50, there is a contrast between being and existence. Bitterly, in contrast, there is a statement of disgusting existence in a society that has not developed generally accepted moral principles, has not educated its citizens. Dana Sideros talks about all this, again, intuitively, her metaphors are sharp and embossed, like Vrubel's brush.

The author does not give any recipes for the "recovery" of the social environment, it would be tooit was vulgar and dishonest on her part as a poetess, whose task is to make the reader realize: you can’t, after all, run away “to other cities” all your life!

Maria Kustovskaya invites people fussing, rushing between Good and Evil, to finally stop in their flight and look into the eyes of the truth, to be horrified by the sores of society. After all, all the harmful manifestations of human nature: greed, deceit, cruelty are not innate. We have come to such an ugly existence (not being, by no means), filling the brains of children with unnecessary rubbish instead of education. And now, from generation to generation, we are reaping dividends in the form of sociopaths. After all, Makarenko also warned that education should go one step ahead of education.

More on The Fool's Apprentice

And this is only the first piece from the collection! However, his subsequent poems do not disappoint the reader. In one of them, Dana Sideros prays to the Lord to do something with the impersonal industrial-institutional machine of the state “with incessant mouths”, “ingrown telephone tubes”, with an atmosphere where impersonal people are reduced to cogs, deprived of the possibility of creativity.

These words sound like a revelation, because it's no secret to anyone that modern society and the so-called "democracy" have long and thoroughly become outdated. The existing model is, in fact, over two hundred years old. The media tycoons make him an untouchable "sacred cow" because they get paid to do it, and corrupt politicians don't even try to create something new. Today lags behind the demands of civilizationdivision into "right" and "left", attempts to rule the world with the help of competing parties.

Let's think again about the metaphors under which there is a signature - Dana Sideros. The poems are clearly addressed to all mankind ("we are billions"). Indeed, it is high time to wrap cotton around the clockwork barrel organ of the flawed world order, pumping money into the pockets of gray cardinals.

After all, our mighty civilization today is capable of real miracles. How fast is society evolving? If any of us built an ideal society, then it would be adequate to progress for five years, and then it would again become a straitjacket for the new generation.

Scientists of the American Venus project have calculated: now give up all governments from their power and erase all the borders on earth, - in a decade and a half, one prosperous civilization can be created all over the planet! What a consolation that would be for all people! In a word, it is not in vain that Dana asks: “Lord, could you do something with them?”.

Other poems from the collection

However, the poetess writing under the pseudonym Dana Sideros captivates her readers not only with thoughts about the future. The author Maria Kustovskaya does not create luscious and lulling poems about the present either. After all, in the world around us, not only foolishness, but also hypocrisy and hypocrisy are in store for a hundred years.

Let's be a little ironic about the third power. Moreover, the above verses are partly about her. That which is far from true justicehuman judicial system, they said, and independently of each other, even the ancient Greeks and Indians. Moreover, both of them defined those who interpret the deliberately confusing legislation as sinners and defined them in the future in hell. Has it become fairer in our time?

"It's time to say words" - such a non-trivial idea is expressed by the poetess. What is behind it? Let's try to explain, because there is a deep meaning behind this.

Fyodor Tyutchev once exhaustively wrote about the problem: "A thought uttered is a lie." After all, people for the most part do not express their true goals and desires in words, but hide them. Wisdom says that at the beginning of creation there must be the Word. Obviously, it shouldn't be false. The people of the sixth race will definitely have to overcome this.

Dana Sideros. "Wall of the living". Plot plot

It would be incorrect to talk about Maria Kustovskaya only as a poetess. Her creative portfolio includes both prose developments and a published play called The Wall of the Living. It feels something eternal that should not be trampled down by civilization: a spirituality that allows people not to forget that they are people.

This touching work plunges us into the mystery of human existence. Let's retell its summary. Grandmother Taisa and her grandchildren, twenty-year-old Ksyusha and her older brother Anton, live in a small town. It so happened that their mother died. They also have an uncle, the son of Taisa's grandmother, Vladimir, who lives on the other side of the country.

The first scene of the play takes place in a cafe where grandmother andgrandchildren to the wedding of their relative, second cousin Ksyusha - Lera. In the cafe, portraits of artists hang on the walls. Ksyusha notices that on one wall there are living artists, and on the other - dead ones. She clarifies her guess with the director of the establishment, dressed in "trousers and a gray shirt loose." He, smiling, says that such an order, indeed, he introduced. At the wedding, a clouding of consciousness occurs with her grandmother, she cries loudly, telling others that she is at a wake. Her grandchildren take her home.

Man reveals before death

Grandmother Taisa felt that she would die soon. She spoke the day before about this to her friend, neighbor Raya, who advised her to strengthen herself and wait until her son Vladimir arrived. However, he, promising to visit his mother, does not keep his word.

Taisa begins to have problems with consciousness and memory, she imagines herself young. Initially, seizures are temporary. She hires a nurse - a soulless, unpleasant, elderly, but strong woman Irina.

Doctors say that Grandma Taisa has only a few days left to live. Ksyusha decides to call her uncle Vladimir again, to come and say goodbye to a dying loved one. However, he shows laziness of the soul, not burning with the desire to leave his home, his comfort zone. Then, from the lips of the indifferent, loving grandmother Ksyusha, words escape in excitement that are worth being quoted.

During these days, Taisa for some time thinks that she is a nineteen-year-old girl, then a ten-year-old teenager. Quiet, kind, silent grandmother surprises hergrandchildren, who are only now learning about her difficult biography. She, lost in time, again experiences in the eyes of Ksyusha and Anton those events that she experienced: Stalinist repressions, arrests, punishment of guards, poverty. She again endures the hardships of the war: the bombings, the death of her military husband at the front, hunger, empty tea without sugar…

The end of the play

Ksyusha managed to get through to his uncle's soul. He came and said goodbye to his mother. The family drama showed a well-known truth: if trouble happens to a loved one, each of his relatives shows what he is worth as a person.

The play ends with a commemoration held in the same cafe as the wedding. Ksyusha replaces a framed portrait of a live actress with a grandmother's in her youth.

After the commemoration, the owner of the cafe notices this, however, after thinking, he leaves a portrait on the wall.

Metaphors by Dana Sideros

For lovers of poetry, the lines of the poetess at one touch, half-turn awaken bright, memorable images. “The doomed poplars”, “ridges of leather bindings”, “a shelter for homeless books”, “a censer is a father's belt”, “happiness is always stupid and clumsy” - Dana Sideros leaves her readers with such business cards.

Her verses are melodic and make it possible to imagine all this vividly. Everything created thanks to the brightness and uniqueness does not go out of memory!

Conclusion

It's nice to realize that in our vain times people like good, heartfelt modern literature. This can be seen in the number of responses in LIVEJOURNAL, which are bestowed with warmth and gratitude to Dana Sideros. Feedback is very importantfor the poetess-demiurge, who creates her own world in them, already today ready for evolutionary changes and longing for them. Therefore, dear readers, do not skimp on warm words that inspire them.

In the still small but capacious poetic world of Maria Kustovskaya there is a piece of her soul, inspiration, nerve. It is attractive, you can go there for soul-touching rhymes, as if for spring water. She also gets plays. I would like those of them that are written "on the table" to please the admirers of her work soon.

Good luck to you, Dana Sideros, joy of creativity and female happiness! You are not one of those poets for whom silence is golden, create!