Biography of Alexander Beresnev

Probably because there is a special talent here, and the state of mind, and the rarely encountered skill of an adult to be his own in the world of a child. But just one of such real children's poets, who fully possessed all these qualities, was Alexander Mikhailovich Beresnev. It is no coincidence that he met the most warm attitude to his work by Agnia Barto, Sergey Mikhalkov, Elizabeth Stuart, Elena Blaginina and some, other luminaries of domestic children's literature.

But the normal consolidation of his literary and footing, so to speak, the status during the life of the poet, alas, did not take place: Alexander Beresnev, the author of more than a dozen children's books published in Moscow, Kemerovo, Novosibirsk, for some reason did not accept the writers. Fate did not indulge him very much at all. He was born on January 29 in the city of Toguchin, the Novosibirsk region, and at the age of two, he moved with his family to the village of Industrial Kemerovo Region, where he grew up.

He had to fully grant the dashing of the war years. And then he lived, pursued by family and house troubles, it is not easy. However, this did not hinder him, having once stepped on a thorny literary path, to go to the end, without turning, not seduced by something lighter and more profitable. Having graduated from the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, he then gives journalism for many years, working in various newspapers of Kuzbass and Novosibirsk, as well as editorial activities in book publishers.

Well, in his free time to extract, he writes poetry. At the Kemerovo seminar of young writers of the year, where he came with the first samples of the pen, the verses of Alexander Beresnev were seen, and he was seriously advised to engage in children's poetry. The young poet heeded the advice, and since then his poems addressed to babies are increasingly appearing on the pages of the press, sounding on the radio and gradually begin to form in the first books, which immediately gain the recognition of the young reader's audience.

In any case, his books on the shelves have never been laid down. What is the reason for this success? First of all, in that probably, that the poet understood very well and felt those to whom he addressed his poems. And, probably, the most important thing is that it reduced the distance between him and the children to a minimum - the poet looked at the eyes surrounding them.

It is known that the child has his own vision of the world and a figurative system. Alexander Beresnev not only took into account this, but also masterfully used in his poetic practice. Say, in one of his poems, the boy runs around the Snow Polyana, and in this regard, a truly children's school arises, if you want an association: "I began to linish it with skis, and it turned out to be a notebook in the line." Or here is an image-comparison that is no less characteristic of a children's attitude: "The boat is asleep at the pier, like a mongrel on a chain." And the watering machine has two fountains, like a giant's mustache.

Beresnev even has a poem “Everything looks like something”, consisting of some comparisons, as if born by children's imagination: a clear night.