Immortal Dragonfly

Dmitry Vodennikov is a well-known poet, author of the essay books Vodennikov in Prose, Dreams of Chuna, and People Who Dreamed; host of the program Poetic Minimum on Radio “Culture”. In Immortal Dragonfly, the author again captures frequencies unavailable to... ordinary senses: contemporary poets engage in a dialogue with the ghosts of the Silver Age—and the reader doesn’t even notice how they become a participant in this conversation. Poems do not favor vague spaces. With shadows—yes, with fear in the corners—yes, sunlit rooms—too. But they do not like vague spaces. They need an echo, but a real one, not synthesizer-like. Poems and prose love living sound. Snow falls, apple blossoms fly, grass grows and turns yellow, life comes and goes. ...But sometimes a person simply sits down and writes a poem. Dmitry Vodennikov