Poetic lines by Dm. Bykov are harmoniously and naturally built into a panorama of the life of an individual, a country, an era and the world as a whole. “Bykov is a poet of the vertical... which is based on the belief that there is someone above you to whom you can turn and who is able to hear and answer you,” writes M. Edelstein in the preface to this book. Precision, swiftness, authenticity and depth of experience are characteristic of his poetry. The new book presents the best selected and completely new poems of the poet.