About the book: 2023 / “The green certificate of a bishop, folded in half" is the last book of poems by Eduard Limonov, compiled by the author, but not published his life. “This is a book of Eduard Limonov’s farewell to life. A book that comes to the reader several years after his death. Here, as always with him, everything is alive: strange turns of phrases, the magic of unexpected images, the piercing precision of irregularity. ‹…› A collection of exquisite, colorful, extraordinary poems, the most powerful of which, in my opinion, are the simplest - poems by a man sentenced to death. In life, he hid his weakness and suffering from everyone, but like no one else he was frank about himself in literature. This is a book with the last confessions, the end of a long confession of the Russian writer.” – Sergey Shargunov