Leonid Latynin is a poet and prose writer. His books have been published in Europe and America. “I can’t imagine what kind of optics the poet used to see what even professional futurologists could not see—the future in the present? And why are poems from almost twenty years ago read avidly, as if they were written today? And is it really that important? It is much more important that a strong, unique poetic voice made its way to its reader, and not in posterity, but here and now - with the book of life in verse, without which, I am convinced, the history of Russian poetry of the twentieth century will be incomplete" (Alla Marchenko). A book of the best poems by Leonid Latynin, selected by the poet himself. Some poems from recent years are being published for the first time.