Burning brushwood. Reading for thinking poets

In the verses of Evgeny Chekanov, the history of Russia, the past and real, the entire tragic twentieth century in all its unpredictability and diversity reflected. Thinking about the past, the poet is not afraid to peer into the future. His poems are sometimes light, sometimes ironic, bitter, but always sincere, deep and very lyrical.
Before us is not just a book, the creator of which seeks to revive the genre of author’s commentary to the poetry that has almost disappeared in Russian literature (Evgeny Chekanov is repelled from the explanation for the composition of Derzhavin relatively dark places in them ... ") By definition, critic Irina Kalus, the reader is offered something fundamentally different - a "special alloy of poetry and memoir -philosophical commentary." This is a frank (and sometimes biased) testimony of a contemporary, valuable of its honesty, straightforwardness, historical instinct and insight, a son of a feeling for the homeland. Comments are written in the blood of hearts, freshly fresh, but from the standpoint of a wise person who has seen a lot (and rethought).
The historical, literary and biographical context, which Evgeny Chekanov saturated his new book, organically complements poetic lines, creating an integral model of the author"s worldview