Once More I Visited... Poems of Different Years

“…About the same word set as before: ordinary and simple, but — only! — arranged into a different thought and place — and flowing in its own way! Everything at once is illuminated, lives, and breathes with the poetry of the Deity. Without effort, without family feuds, music of words and feelings and thoughts flows on — and you are already captured by it and drink in a living spring, like a traveler who has finally reached a moist oasis in the desert, so pleasant, so complete, and so simple, and full. That’s how we, living today, from generation to generation, sing his poetry and praise the memory of him — “sad and bright.”” I.M. Smoktunovsky on the poetry of A.S. Pushkin (“To Be!”).

Contents:
01. Autumn (Excerpt)
02. “Winter. What should we do in the village? I see… ”
03. Confession
04. Winter Morning
05. The Desire for Glory
06. Madonna
07. “I wander along the noisy streets…”
08. “My plump-faced critic, my taunting buffoon…”
09. Poems written at night during insomnia
10. The Prophet
11. “God, don’t let me go mad…”
12. “Approaching Izhory…”
13. The Cart of Life
14. “Time, my friend, time! The heart begs for rest…”
15. A Scene from Faust
16. “...I have again visited...”