"Visit" - so Alexander Кушнер named the select, and a poem, opening a book, is begun with words: "I visited" too. A roll-call with Pushkin is here appropriate, Кушнер leans against tradition of the Russian poetry of XIX - the XX century. Lyric "poetry of Кушнера, - Andrey Арьев writes in the article about him, - there is a connective and unbroken a secret filament with intimate maintenance of Russian literature on the whole". Reasons and causes for verses at Кушнера extraordinarily various. Whatever a loving verses reader Кушнера thought about, he always can remember his lines on the same theme. And at all thematic variety strikes unity of кушнеровской poetics. If to compare his first book the "First impression" (1962) with closing is select a book "Above a precipice" (2018), then at all obvious distinction there is something a common in them. This common is originality of the heartfelt world of poet. He can be known on one strophe (and even to the line). "Poetry essence existence of the soul, searching to itself an exit in a language, and Alexander Кушнер is a that case, when the soul finds an exit" - said about him И. Бродский.