White night

The name of Mikhail Kuzmin - a poet, translator, critic, composer - is inextricably linked with the culture of the Silver Age. Alexander Blok called him an artist to the brain of bones, the finest lyricist, the witty dialectic in art. The creative manner of Kuzmin is equally close to symbolism, acmeism, futurism, but the poet never ranked himself to any poetic school. This publication includes poems of different years. Among them, the debut cycle “Alexandrian Songs”, which has become a visiting card cuzmin for many years, and the last book “trout breaks the ice”-considered not only the top of his work, but also an outstanding example of poetry of the 1920s, “breaking the ice” of Soviet censorship And, according to Anna Akhmatova, perceived by contemporaries as deafening news