I Like You, Grown Woman

Larisa Rubalskaya writes, above all, about love - happy and often not so much. What else can one write about, after all, love is a creative feeling that inspires at any time of the year. The finale tries to come up with something that always leaves hope, even in the most seemingly insoluble situations.

In the autumn of 2022, when new autumn poems of the same time were collected in the book “On the Edge of Autumn,” the mood was quite autumnal. But it's impossible to always be on the edge of autumn. The mood changes, as does the time of year. And the book “On the Edge of Autumn” outgrew itself, transforming into a new, more complete collection “I Like You, Grown Woman,” while new poems, “Melodies of Spring” and songs for the new vaudeville “The Secret of Polichinelle” brought a greater share of optimism to this new collection.

The book includes new and best poems, including the new poem “I Like You, Grown Woman,” as well as new songs for the musical “The Golden Goose” based on the fairy tale of the same name by the Brothers Grimm, the musical “One of Many” based on the story by Victoria Tokareva, the series “Arbat Secrets,” and completely new, previously unpublished songs for the vaudeville “The Secret of Polichinelle” and the autobiographical story “The Sparkling Stone.”