About the book: 2023 / Eduard Veniaminovich Limonov is known as a prose writer, social philosopher, and politician. But Limonov began as a poet. This is exactly how he presented himself in his most famous novel, “It’s me, Eddie”: “I am a Russian poet.” Specialists such as Alexander Zholkovsky and Joseph Brodsky left the highest reviews about Limonov’s poetry. Limonov’s poetic voice is unique, and his contribution to the history of national and world literature will still be comprehended. Having returned to writing poetry in the last two decades of his life, Limonov left a huge poetic legacy. Until now, no attempts have even been made to collect and classify it. In addition to books from his lifetime, there are collected here uncensored samizdat collections, poems from individual manuscripts and typescripts, and other fruits of archival research that began during Limonov’s lifetime and were completed only now. More than two hundred examples of small and large poetic works The forms will be published as part of this collection for the first time. The reader will have a unique opportunity, after the author’s departure, to become familiar with the unknown works of an undisputed classic. The collection is accompanied by full-fledged cultural commentaries. Published with the author’s spelling and punctuation preserved.