I invented this street... Medvedev A.

When is the novice poet is ready to publish his creations?! Everyone has differently... but the “news that is always new to the Almighty, which is always new...” The most skillful poet B. Pasternak has always been present, revealed this phrase to us, once surprised by the inexhaustibility of Russian rhythmic poetry. It is amazing how, with such a number of large and different poets, new ones come and reveal us the usual world again! So it happened to me when I first heard the poems of A. Medvedev at a poetic evening, where I myself was a guest... I admit, I have not seduced to meet the poet for a long time - how to find a nugget of pure gold, even on the mine - a rare luck - and then Immediately felt the authenticity of the talent! But I decided to check myself, to read with my eyes, because I read the author, not as an example to many, excellent. It turned out, - he was not mistaken - poems, and these were undoubtedly poems, discovered an amazing world of colors and images inherent only to this author. Of course, as it should be for any novice poet, A. Medvedev has its own poetic addictions, without this, and echoes of the motives and intonations of I. Brodsky, N. Zabolotsky and A. Voznesensky are present... However, this does not interfere with the young author Find your own intonations and motives. “The square and the circle flow into each other“... involving us in the endless series of poetic transformations that create a bizarre and sometimes inexplicable world of the poet's attitude! The long creative path of searches, disappointments and new poetic discoveries, gifted and inconsistent young poet, in love with poetry and devoted to her to the end!

Valery Krasnopolsky