In the sky day

Oleg Khlebnikov had a book that he himself called Roman in the poems. Forest as life. As David Samoilov said twenty years ago - "in verses Oleg Khlebnikov there is a picture of the world". The fate of the lyrical character (it is hardly different from the author) and the fate of the people around him add up against the backdrop of domestic history. Yes, they themselves are this story. And the very close circle, whom the author considers the brothers - Yuri Tolikchykhin, Alexander Aronov, "Tolik, Andryushka, Pasha" ... and neighbors on the poem "Pavlenko Street" in Transmekina: Boris Pasternak, Chukovsky"s roots, Bulat Okudzhava, Arseny Tarkovsky, Joseph Brodsky, Andrei Voznesensky, Evgeny Yevtushenko - "and the word friend / together with the Father and Son / Trinity was ..."