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Yurij Smirnov is one of the most brilliant contemporary poets, with his distinctive style and unique poetic language. This poet, prose writer, screenwriter, and winner of the Grigoriev Poetry Prize lives in Kropivnitsky, Ukraine. He writes his poems in Russian literally under Russian missile fire. And these poems are filled with true humanity, concern for the world, and love for freedom and creation.
This book of poems, written in 2023, unfolds before the reader a complex picture, rich in metaphors and allusions: first a premonition of the end of the old world, and then the brutal reality of war.