About the book: 1990 / I am telling a story... A book of poems. / Comp. Yu. L. Boldyrev. - M.: Pravda, 1990. - 480 pp. This volume of poems by the famous Soviet poet Boris Slutsky (1919–1986) is somewhat unusual in its structure. The poems in it are placed not according to the chronology of writing, but according to the chronology of what is described, so that read in a row they will present the reader with a poetic chronicle of the life of a Soviet person and the Soviet people for half a century - from the 20s to the 70s of our century. The book includes many new, previously unpublished poems by the poet..