Poetry. Translated from the Russian by J. Kates. Mikhail Aizenberg's poems articulate a personal response from the perspective of countercultural alternatives to the erratic climate of the political global warming of Russia's past two decades. When the cultural history of Russia's turn to the twenty-first century is written, the epigraph will be drawn from Aizenberg's poetry. Mikhail Aizenberg was awarded a Brodsky Fellowship for a residency in Rome (2002) and the Andrey Bely Prize (2003). He lives in Moscow.