Responsible Child

Everyone who knows and loves the poems of Vera Polozkova, and everyone who knows and grumbles about the poems of Vera Polozkova – that is, approximately everyone who is capable of reading in Russian and distinguishing poetry from prose –... has asked themselves and each other: what will Vera write about when unhappy love is no longer interesting to her? This book is the answer. These are not poems about some other love (for example, maternal love). These are simply words of love. Polozkova again says what everyone would like to, but could not. We would like to compose such fairy tales and such rhymes for our children, we would like to recite poetry while carrying them on our shoulders and rhythmically bouncing. But we couldn't. Now it's simple for us. All that remains is to read this book with them until it is memorized and then to talk with quotes from it for the rest of our lives.” 
Aleksandr Gavrilov, literary critic.