Anna Russ is one of the iconic figures in modern poetry. Her poems have been published in legendary thick magazines, she is the winner of many slams and laureate of the Triumph and Debut awards. These are recitatives and hymns, laments and love spells, opera arias and prayers, romances and blues - each of the eight dozen poems in this book brought to life by its own persistent melody, to which the only right words have been chosen. Sometimes they are about the pain that they didn’t choose you, sometimes about the difficulties of deciphering telegrams from higher powers, sometimes about late gratitude for trials, sometimes about the ruthless vision of the author, who sees in advance the outcome of any story - including his own. It is important that they are so accurate that they do not leave the reader a chance to be cowardly, disingenuous and self-deceived, connecting them with the bitter but healing inner truth. With the feeling with which you read this book, people are still growing up and deciding to change everything.