Summer Has Passed

These long-awaited poems are striking in their rare qualities. The most astonishing is that the words we seemingly utter every minute become unrecognizable, cloaked in mystery, and give rise to an unexpected echo in the heart… This new voice in Russian poetry will resonate for a long time," — A. Akhmatova expressed about the work of Arseny Tarkovsky, whose fame came quite late. The artistic world of Arseny Tarkovsky is directed towards eternity and the very essence of life. In his works, historical epochs intertwine, his rhymes absorb the atmosphere of the past while reaching for the future. The lines of the poems "Little Life", "Live in the house — and the house will not collapse…", "Summer Has Passed" are known to more than one generation of readers.