While I was in the labor camp, some of my poems were published in France and Israel. In 1985, I shared the Liberty Prize of French PEN Club with Irina Ratushinskaya. I retired in 1999. My current interests lie in the field of Pattern Theory . I believe that poetry is everything what is not prose.
Poetry is fuzzy and impractical.
It was very hard to preserve the poems and smuggle them out of Russia. I owe that to Mikhail Berman and, especially, Tanya Ioffe.