Who is God with us? Are you serious? — the poet does not hesitate to ask, forcing to remember — at the same time! — and the recent law on offended feelings, and the buckles of the soldiers of the Third Reich with this very inscription Gott mit uns. His postmodern irony is so strong that it turns on itself, and as a result it becomes possible to suggest with complete seriousness: “Let’s imagine for a moment that He really exists, and not in general Any, but the One who was crucified for us…” and with complete responsibility to correlate today’s realities precisely with this “assumption”. So “thinking about the soul” does not mean giving up thinking about the topic of the day, but, on the contrary, looking at this malice with a clear consciousness of what it is.
Pushkin Fund, 48 p., 2015.