Autumn on Saturn Island

The collection by poet Mikhail Bordunovsky (b. 1998) «Autumn on Saturn Island» consists of texts by contemporaries, ideologically and stylistically close to the authors published by the press, working with themes that lead away from a direct interpretation of current reality, but complement its understanding with special meanings and images. In Bordunovsky's book, poems from the first half of the 2020s are gathered, a period of the past future. In these texts, some vectors of the author's movement towards important literary directions and names seem to be easily discernible, but this peculiar intertextuality dissolves as one delves deeper into the complex imagery and narrative. These poems exist as sketches of fictional, future, or potential grand plots about frozen time, unfounded reality, and islands awaiting a comet. Bordunovsky's method is presented in the book as the unfolding of a hybrid and self-radicalizing existence of poetry at the intersection with prose, lyrical - with eschatological; the collection ends with a text-game that defies genre fixation, a set of rules conceptualizing poetic expression and sending player-readers on a pilgrimage somewhere into the Other Space; let’s say, to Saturn Island.