Snow mail. Selected poems. Zhitinsky A.

Poems are my first and, perhaps, only love. Among my readers there is a very small group who likes my poems more than my prose. Their units. But it is they who are my favorite readers. Because I am convinced that the most important and best I said precisely in the verses that I wrote from 22 to 35-37 years old, as it should be for the poet.

once and somewhere I read The fact that writing poetry after 35 years is indecent. This, of course, is wrong. And many great examples like Tyutchev are easily refuted.

I quit me to write in my own solution - they left, without saying goodbye. Just left. The tree is growing, some branches disappear from it. This is natural if it is alive. Prose kills poetry. At some point, I felt that it was not poetic imagery, but an accurate presentation of my thoughts. But does this cross out poetry?

Prose stories that I liked to invent, have been more effective than poems. More effective for readers. But not for me.

Poems of different years are placed here so that you can at least slightly understand the path of the poet at the turn of the 60-70s, which wrote exclusively on the table, without the Internet, without readers, simply because, simply because, simply because that he could not write it.

Alexander Zhitinsky