Poets in New York. About the city, language, diaspora

The book contains conversations with poets from Russia and Eastern Europe (Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Ukraine), working in New York and in its literary orbit, about diaspora, emigration and its "waves", native and non-native languages, architecture and urbanism , the intersection of geographical, political and semiotic borders, points of repulsion and attraction between different generations of literary diasporas of the late XX - early XXI centuries. The “general place” of conversations is New York, its urban, literary and mythological landscape, considered through the prism of language and poetic traditions and compared with other centers of Russian and East European cultures in the diaspora and in the metropolis