Mikhail Eisenberg Justified Presence

Poet and critic Mikhail Aizenberg's book, "Justified Presence," includes articles written primarily in recent years. Their overarching theme is the current state of Russian poetry, which the author understands as qualitatively and fundamentally new. An analysis of individual poetics and personalities gradually leads the discussion to a more general perspective—a description of the symptoms of a new poetic consciousness. The author doesn't offer a definitive answer to the question, "What is poetry today?" but he doesn't shy away from it either.