About poets and poetry

The work of Alexander Kushner loves and knows several generations of poetry lovers in Russia. Joseph Brodsky wrote about him: “Alexander Kushner is one of the best lyric poets of the twentieth century, and his name is destined to stand among the names dear to the heart whose native language is Russian ...”
But not only Alexander Kushner is known with his verses, his articles about poetry are also of great interest. In the book “On Poets and Poetry”, the reader will find a number of articles about Pushkin and Blok, Innocentia of Annensky and Akhmatova, Pasternak and Mandelstam and other poets loved by the author. Articles are closely related to verses dedicated to the Kushner to these poets, and they are also widely represented in the book