Poetic cycles and monologues

"The poetry of Alexander Mironov is saturated with an exceptionally dense meaning. It's not just poetry, it's philosophical treatises condensed into verse. One can even trace from the autumn of 1964 until his last days his own interests and the interests of the people around him, the ideas expressed in these verses, verses that embodied a unique chronicle of almost fifty years." N. I. Nikolaev Alexander Mironov is a Russian poet, essayist, and translator, a prominent figure in the poetic culture of St. Petersburg from the 1960s to the 2000s. He was part of the circle of poets of Malaya Sadovaya and the group of helenists, and was friends with Vladimir Erlem, Viktor Krivulin, and Elena Schwartz. He was a laureate of the Andrei Bely Prize (1981). The collection includes selected poems by Alexander Mironov - from his early experiments to his latest works - with an afterword by N. I. Nikolaev.