About the book: year / Lazar Kelberin (1907–1975) - poet, writer, literary critic of the “first wave” of emigration. Participant in the evenings of the magazine “Numbers”, meetings of the literary associations “Kochevye”, “Green Lamp” (1930s). In 1929 in Paris he published a collection of poems “Idol”. Published in magazines: “Modern Notes”, “Numbers”, “Polar Star”, “Russian Notes”; newspaper "Vozrozhdenie" The poems were included in the anthologies of Russian foreign poetry “Anchor” (1936) and “In the West” (1953). This electronic publication is a selection of selected poems by the poet, found by the compiler on the Internet and periodicals and anthologies of poetry from Russian Abroad.