"Between the Cloud and the Pit" ("Mezhdu oblakom i yamoi"), – "HGS", Moscow, 1999, Series "Poetry Library", 183 pp. – Collection of poems. (The book was translated into English by Richard McKane and is to be published).

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Between the cloud and the pit,
betwixt the birch and the aspen,
between the best of life
and the completely unbearable
under the high vault of the sky
the unstoppable swings
between Bosch's freaks
and Botticelli's spring.

          1980

Translated by Richard McKane

          In Russian
          Read by the Author