Symbols of impermanence. The longer the reality, the more interesting the dreams.

Readers are offered the first book of a new poetic series 'Two Elements'. Maxim Zamshev and Ivan Kupreyanov are poets of formally different generations, but they are undoubtedly united by one literary tradition, dating back to the Silver Age. Their poetic world is inconceivable without world culture. And if the viscous, mesmerizing lyrics of Zamshev are connected by one umbilical cord with the poetry of Osip Mandelstam, then the sparkling and clear verses of Kupreyanov are closest to the legacy of Georgy Ivanov. As a result, a peculiar dialogue of two generations, two worlds, two elements, intersecting in the most important aspects - love for the Motherland, love for women, love for poetry, has emerged.