Before it got dark: Poems

In the book of one of the most notable poets of the last decade, Boris Khersonsky included poems written in 2007-2009. Memory - Personal, "semi-forgotten words" overflowing "semi-forgotten things" in his "overflowing house", it is also a historical memory, which operates with centuries and millennia, while their traces have not yet erased. And - the world, "strong walled gray hail soda", which owns itself with alternating demolitions and reconstructions, until the apocalyptic darkness falls out. Retrospection and eschatology - two dimensions of "temporary years", two main themes of this collection.
As illustrations to the book and in the design of the binding, a series of collages Favorite Birds of Max "Alexander Roytbudbuda, one of the leaders of Ukrainian postmodern, was used