This collection by the prominent Soviet poet and prose-writer, winner of the USSR State Prize, Alexander Yashin includes his best poems about his native Vologda country, its picturesque beauty, the soldier's ordeals in the Second World War, which he suffered from the war's beginning to end, about conscience, kindness and love.
Yashin is a lyrical poet, possessed of a sensitive heart, who knows the sadness of parting and loss, the restlessness of a seeking and doubting mind. The book is foreworded by his autobiographical article "A Few Lines About My Roots", written specially for the foreign reader.
This collection by the prominent Soviet poet and prose-writer, winner of the USSR State Prize, Alexander Yashin includes his best poems about his native Vologda country, its picturesque beauty, the soldier's ordeals in the Second World War, which he suffered from the war's beginning to end, about conscience, kindness and love.
Yashin is a lyrical poet, possessed of a sensitive heart, who knows the sadness of parting and loss, the restlessness of a seeking and doubting mind. The book is foreworded by his autobiographical article "A Few Lines About My Roots", written specially for the foreign reader.