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Novai͡a kniga Aleksandra Delʹfinova - berlinskogo postpank-poėta, pishushchego po-russki, - ėto i͡arostʹ i nezhnostʹ, ispovedalʹnostʹ i sarkazm, absurd i trezvostʹ. Ėti teksty - ne opisanie, a zhivai͡a zastyvshai͡a realʹnostʹ. Delʹfinov pishet tak, slovno poėzii͡a voznikaet, kogda vsë ostalʹnoe uzhe otstupilo. I͡Azyk zdesʹ rabotaet kak instrument pri͡amogo deĭstvii͡a: protiv voĭny, protiv imperii, za pravo govoritʹ, kogda prikazano molchatʹ. Mozhno nachinatʹ chitatʹ s li͡uboĭ stranit͡sy. Na odnoĭ iz nikh - to, chto nuzhno imenno vam.

The new book by Alexander Delphinov, a Berlin—based post-punk poet who writes in Russian, is about rage and tenderness, confession and sarcasm, absurdity and sobriety. These texts are not a description, but a living, frozen reality. Delphinov writes as if poetry arises when everything else has already receded. Language here works as a tool of direct action: against war, against empire, for the right to speak when ordered to remain silent. You can start reading from any page. One of them has exactly what you need.