Fascinated, bewitched

After the release of the last lifetime collection of poems by Zabolotsky roots, Chukovsky wrote to him: “I am writing to you with the respectfulness with which I would write Tyutchev or Derzhavin. For me, there is no doubt that the author of the “Cranes”, “Swan”, “Forest Lake”, “Actresses”, “Nonsense Girl” is a truly great poet whose work sooner or later Soviet culture ... I will have to be proud of as one of his greatest achievements . The prediction of Chukovsky has come true, and the new generation of readers reveals for himself a bizarre-living world of the poet, in which spiritual and bodily harmony combined with cosmic harmony, and “breathing of flowers” ​​reveals itself in it “living soul”. According to Andrei Bitov, both Baratynsky became the largest poet of the nineteenth century in the twentieth, so Zabolotsky will become the largest poet of the twentieth century in the twenty -first. This edition presents a complete collection of poems and poems by N. A. Zabolotsky, selected by the author in accordance with his literary testament