The Blue Fire Flared Up

Before you is a book that lives with the voice of Sergey Yesenin — the singer of his native land, a dreamer, a rebel, and a romantic. These lines smell of haymaking and spring bird cherry, shimmer with moonlight over quiet ponds, and buzz with the noise of city streets.

In Yesenin's poetry — all of Russia: birch groves and the fairground bustle, the anxieties of time and an eternal thirst for love. Here is both the tenderness of youth and the bitter confession of maturity, and the bright sadness of farewell. Each page breathes sincerity, in which — the power of poetry conquering hearts for over a century resides.