Into the Snow

Introduction

Once Again: Into the Snow

A Few Notes on Poetry

People

Girl in Childhood

Dream: Flight of the Dragonfly

Now Always Snow

The Last Ravine

Silence

Farewell

Silence

Untitled

On Reading the Poem “Untitled” Aloud

Again: In Breaks Between Sleep

Field near Ferapontovo

”Swallow”: A Way of Connecting

Mother

Silence

Pines-with-Birch

Pine on Rock

Rose of Silence

Bidding Shalamov Farewell

And: One Year Later

The Shaman and the Potato

Five Matryoshkas

—1947

Kazimir Malevich

Summer with Angels

The Tale of the Aging Harlequin

Winter Bender

N. Kh. Among the Paintings

Degree: Of Stability

Field: At the Height of Winter

This Year’s Roses

Outskirts: Winter Without People

Reading Norwid

Past and Utopian

Regarding a Long-Distance Conversation

Song from the Time of Your Forefathers

Little Tatar Song

Excerpts from Thirty-six Variations on Chuvash and Tatar Folk Songs

Two Epilogues

Garden—Grief

Response to a Friend’s Book

Excerpts from Thirty-six Variations on Chuvash and Mari Folk Songs

Excerpts from Twenty-eight Variations on Chuvash and Udmurt Folk Songs

Starting from the Field

Long Ago

Summer with Prantel

In the Middle of the Field

Untitled

Field—Without Us