Chrysanthemums for the rat in the basement

In the verses of Olga Sondberg, the “thin worlds” of micro -consumers, the smallest shifts in the usual, painful things, as if verbal tissue, weaving reality, suddenly found a microscopic gap, are opened. The equally elusive displacement, leaving everything as it is, but slightly different, forms a special diction of these verses, restrained ascetic, “atonal”, fulfilled secrets and at the same time-stunningly discovered by the experience of soaring, when “everyone can become a word of love . Olga Sondberg was born in Moscow in 1972. She graduated from the Faculty of Chemistry of Moscow State University. He works as an editor-corrector. Published since 1992. In 1999-2001, the curator of the site Young Russian Literature. Translated modern English -speaking, Greek, Ukrainian poetry. The author of the books “Book of Conferences” (1997), “Winter Company of the Zero year” (2001), “Very calm story” (2003), “Seven hours one minute” (2007), “Messages: Imerologio” (2010), “Messages) : graffiti ”(2013),“ Contrary to unwillingness and employment ”(2017) Poems and prose are translated into English, Italian and Czech. A short list of Andrei Bely awards in the nomination Prose (2014) Lives in Moscow