Moscow: New Literary Review, 2002. — 303 s. — ISBN: 5-86793-177-3 . The subject of this book is the work of Brodsky as a creator of poems, t. e. self-contained texts, each of which bears the stamp of author's individuality. Of the sixteen works of Western Slavists presented in the book, fourteen are devoted to individual poems. Along with detailed historical, cultural and intertextual comments, the reader will find here an in-depth analysis of Brodsky’s poetics. The author studies not only the poetry techniques typical for the poet, but also such unexpected aspects of creativity, as, for example, the use of techniques of musical composition.