“...Ancient signs, details, associations accompany me all my life, and the poem can talk about anything: about love, about nature, about art, about the meaning of life. Minor or tragic, mournful intonation is complemented by frivolous, comic, ironic, whatever. The spectrum is varied and cannot be reduced to one or two colors. By the dates marked under the poems, the reader will see that ancient motifs do not leave me today...” The publication includes poems by Alexander Semenovich Kushner from different years and the essay “You talked with Homer for a long time alone...”