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An American Poetry and Photography Book."I like clarity in poetry, so that a reader doesn't have to struggle with strained syntax or inventive grammar. Mr. Dayen does not disappoint. His poems have a constant direction, which allows the reader to enter the landscape he has drawn. His poems come from experience, one who writes about his own life and the observations he has made along life's rocky road. The range of poems is impressive. There is no hint of pretension. These unadorned poems speak with an authentic vision, all too often lacking in today's poetry. The quality of the work prevails throughout the book as if the reader was sitting across the table from the poet engaged in lively conversation." --A. D. Winans Aleksey Dayen is an American award-winning poet and novelist, translator, and photographer. He was born and raised in the USSR and moved to NYC from Moscow in 1994. In 2004, he was awarded the David Burliuk Prize for the literary achievement from the Academy of Zaum. His writings have been published in anthologies and leading periodicals worldwide, and photographs appeared in many magazines and newspapers, on book covers and posters, as well as in gallery exhibits in Europe. Aleksey translates from Polish and English into Russian and from Russian into English. Among others, he has translated poems by Gregory Corso, Stanley Kunitz, Jack Micheline, Dylan Thomas, and A. D. Winans into Russian. Dayen created a highly acclaimed series of large-scale portraits of artists, musicians, politicians and writers, among who are David Amram, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Vaclav Havel, Peter Thabit Jones, Vaclav Klaus, Stanley Kunitz, Boris Lurie, Victor Ourin, Otto Piene, Alexander Podrabinek, David Slivka, Aldo Tambellini, and Alexander Yeryomenko. He works as a photographer, translator, and an interpreter in psych wards of NYC and NYC MTA hearings as well. This is his 18th book.