Vladimir Aristov (b. 1960) - poet, prose writer, essayist. Author of nine books of poems and the novel “Predictions of an Eyewitness” (2004), articles and essays on the philosophy of poetry and individual poets (Pasternak, Cavafy). Winner of the Alexey Kruchenykh Prize (1993), the Andrei Bely Prize (2008) and the Difference Prize (2016). Aristov's poems belong to the metarealist movement in poetry (Alexey Parshchikov, Ivan Zhdanov, Ilya Kutik). In the circle of meta-realists, Aristov, along with Arkady Dragomoshchenko, is the most “Westernizing” wing: the roots of his individual style go back to the poetry of Rilke, Italian and Greek poets of the early 20th century. Aristov prefers unrhymed verse, but more often white than free, since melodic inertia, the duration of the sound itself, is very important for him. The material world of Aristov’s poems is the most ethereal, consisting of vaguely distinguishable large objects: light, shadow, river, but all of them are metarealistically understood as full participants in the dialogue.