“There was this epigram about Kirsanov: “Kirsanov has three qualities: trickery, trickery and trickery again.” The epigram is biting and partially correct, but it also forgets the fourth quality of Kirsanov - his undoubted talent. His search for poetic form and assonant methods of rhyming were subsequently developed by poets who came in the 50s and 60s, and then by other younger poets. Kirsanov's poetics of circus origin is vaulting, juggling, fireworks; He called himself a “gardener of the gardens of language” and a “circus performer of verse.” In his poetry, the main things were always form and style. He proclaimed experiments with language as the end in itself of the creative process. What a pity that today we do not have a single formalist of this class.” (E. Yevtushenko)