Leap years

Pavel Nerler - geographer, historian, writer, literary critic, chairman of the Mandelshtamovsky society, the author of numerous books, one of which is "Word and" The Case of Osip Mandelstam (2010) - entered the short list of the Nose Prize ("New Literature") for 2011 Student Ark. Steinberg, participant of the group "Moscow time". His first book of lyrics "Botanical Garden" came out in 1998 and contained poems written no later than 1987 for more than twenty years P. Nerler "silent", but in 2009-2012. There are new poems. From the combination of "old" and "new" poems and formed this book. Poems and selected translations are located in it chronologically and are divided into sections corresponding to four-year-old leap cycles than and the title of books - "leappoxes"