A talented person is always versatile. In this collection of poems, Andrei Voznesensky is presented as a lyricist, a romantic with a tragically restless soul, who cares for people and the world around us. His poetic revelations arise amid everyday...
life, which makes them all the more valuable. The sound metaphors, videoms, and circular missiles he opened in poetry are the gene pool of Russian poetry. “He is a magician! — wrote Ernst Neizvestny about Andrei Voznesensky. — A poet and an artist are magicians by their designation and purpose. They possess an original knowledge of the true names of things and can invoke them from non-existence, giving them form.”
A talented person is always versatile. In this collection of poems, Andrei Voznesensky is presented as a lyricist, a romantic with a tragically restless soul, who cares for people and the world around us. His poetic revelations arise amid everyday life, which makes them all the more valuable. The sound metaphors, videoms, and circular missiles he opened in poetry are the gene pool of Russian poetry. “He is a magician! — wrote Ernst Neizvestny about Andrei Voznesensky. — A poet and an artist are magicians by their designation and purpose. They possess an original knowledge of the true names of things and can invoke them from non-existence, giving them form.”