"Where is it Good? Everywhere and Nowhere" ("Gde horosho? Povsyudu i nigde"), – "Vremya", Moscow, 2004, 560 pp., Series "Poetry Library", 560 pp. – Collection of 827 poems written in 1963-2002. The book includes collection of reviews of different years to Larissa Miller's poetry by Arsenyi Tarkovskyi, Vladimir Sokolov, Grigoryi Pomerants and many others; Larissa Miller's view at her own poetry is presented in her interview to almanac "Voprosy Literatury" (# 6, 2003) also published in the book. The book includes alphabetical index of poems.

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It was on the very last day of creation
that speech rose into rhyme,
when the Lord looked at
the work of His hands and suddenly something
sang in Him, as though a string was touched
in the soul and began to sing all at once:
it trembled and caught fire
and all the words, that had lived apart,
prayed through tears: 'O Lord,
O make it so that all can come together,
fuse, interweave.' From that time
rhyme trembles like a flame,
born of two words,
at the height of the Divine game.

          1997

Translated by Richard McKane

          In Russian
          Read by the Author