Igor Pomerantsev likes to cross genre boundaries. His texts can be called the prose of a poet or the poetry of a prose writer. In this book, I. Pomerantsev's poetry and prose live next door, and they have good neighborly relations. The writer himself says that his ancestral homeland is the Mediterranean, and therefore the main role in his books is played by ancient elements: air, soil, moisture and fire. This is evidenced by the titles of his books: Can you hear me?, Czernowitz.Chernivtsi. Chernivtsy, Late collection, Homo eroticus. The new book includes texts that have not been published before. ______________________Igor Pomerantsev was born in Saratov in 1948 in the family of a military journalist. I grew up in Ukraine. He graduated from the English Department of Chernivtsi University. Before emigrating in 1978, he lived in Kiev and worked as a technical translator. For more than forty years he worked in foreign broadcasting (BBC, Radio Liberty). He is the author of numerous books, poetry, prose, essays, radio plays, among them On the Beaufort scale, Red Dry, Office lyrics, My First Bomb Shelter, Don't Call Things by Their Proper Names, etc. His books have been published in translation into Ukrainian, Polish, German, Czech, and Latvian. He currently lives in England and the Czech Republic.