Peter Weil is a brilliant essayist, traveler and gourmet, author of "The Genius of the Place" and "Maps of the Motherland", co-author of "Russian Cuisine in Exile", "Native Speech" and other books familiar to our reader, wrote a book in an unusual genre, the essence of which is not easy to determine. He built the events of his life according to Russian poems of the XX century: those who once influenced him, "became participants in dramatic or comic life episodes, amazed, delighted, taught." That is, according to the author, they addressed him directly. Hence the principle of composing this amazing anthology, which is included in the title of the book: "Poems about me".