We live here. Poems and two poems

Anna Revyakina is a poet, a laureate of numerous national and international literary awards, and the author of over a dozen poetry books. Her poems have been translated into 16 languages. Evgeny Evtushenko called Anna Revyakina a great Russian poetess, Vladimir Solovyov - the best poet of the country, and Zakhar Prilepin - a star of the Russian word that rose in the sky of Donetsk. Anna's hometown is Donetsk, and its tragic fate runs as a common thread throughout all of the poetess's work. Her happy childhood in the sunlit steppe, the warm family home, the support and wise heartfelt conversations with her father, a miner, the caring mother proud of her talented daughter. The city BEFORE. And the city AFTER: shelling, fear of death, destruction and loss, the division of the familiar circle of communication into "us" and "them," resistance, faith in victory and peace for the city and its residents.