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The well-known Russian poet, student and junior comrade of Arseniy Tarkovsky, who worked abroad as a simultaneous interpreter for many years and published six books in Russia, is presented for the first time in such a full, varied and interesting way. Painful fate. And the book is painful. As if from the abyss sounds this voice. Deaf, monotonous, lonely (Sergey Chuprinin). But Gennady Rusakov himself sees his work and his poetic fate not at all so gloomy: “For me, poetry, first of all, is tenderness and pain, the ability to speak with the world in the language of compassion and enthusiastic surprise. Simply, it is laughter and tears, the bitterest happiness. Maybe maybe I made it up like that for myself, but I don't rule out that there are those who agree with me in this case."