The works included in the poetry collection "The Book of love and rage" were written in 2019-2022 — during the COVID-19 epidemic, and then a full-scale invasion. These are poems about what keeps us on the surface, when by all the laws of physics and physiology we should have drowned by now. It's about the ability to rake when the current pulls out into the open sea, hostile and full of predators. It's about the ability to hold your breath when you're covered in a high wave. It's about the power that allows you to see a lighthouse on the horizon and head for the shore. It's about the courage to dive deep and find a shell at the bottom — in memory of this journey, no matter how terrible and gloomy it may be. And this book is about the art of singing and laughing — even in dark, icy water. In the design of the book, The Artist Ksenia Zabrodskaya went to an unexpected experiment. Illustrations are created with the help of Midjourney artificial intelligence, because the depth and multi-level nature of Marina Ponomarenko's works can touch not only living hearts, but also artificial intelligence.