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About the book: the novel in verse “Time and love” is unusual in form. The structure of the novel is 365 illuminating the plot flashes; each is a complete literary work. “Days” make up “months,” four chapters – “seasons” and, finally, a single and unified concentrated “year.” It is not postmodernism, not chaos from the world of subconscious dreams and hallucinations, unrelated to each other. It is instead impressionism framed in the book.

Sudden illumination highlights the very essence of events, which is subject only to poetry or proverb. Impulses, quickly changing in the chronological chain of episodes, create a complete picture of the development of events. Each of the 365 «days» of the year emerges from each other, complementing the previous one, contains new approaches to present the most-read eternal theme of love of all ages and times.

Anyway, the first «month» (two in «Indian spring») of four «seasons» is dedicated exclusively to love.

Once in the US, the Russian poet E. Yevtushenko called me from a neighboring state and advised to improve the melody of the verse. I went to Goa for a year and rewrote the novel, replacing the verlibre to the more melodic and familiar style for the Russian ear and adding many new episodes. The polished story was twice larger. The novel was written in a three-beat meter with the rhyme of the second and fourth lines. Anyhow, verlibre remains in this English translation by the author (a few dozen poems were already in English).

Translated into English, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese and French, the book «200 love poems» – now part of the novel in verse «Time and love» – gives a composite image of a woman as a wife. Naturally, the personality of my spouse found the reflection in these episodes. The preface to «200 love poems», where you will find information about the author and his work, is placed after the author’s introduction.

Location: it is a small corner of the Universe – the Earth, its Himalayas, and Cordillera, the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, and many countries, especially the largest: India, Russia, Canada, and the USA.

Time: centuries, more often the 20th and 21st. The events follow the Indian calendar because the New Year comes in spring.

Actors: Nature and people of the planet, mostly – the female half. Both Nature and people speak their languages, which India, one of the most spiritually developed countries in the world, teaches to understand and respect.

Two of the hundreds of reviews about the author’s poetry from around the world: “… I’m reading Pospelow. His struggle to remain whole is laid bare in the language which calls the blood to the surface, the heart has gone to the heels…” – American poet Billy Durand; “… at the level of Marina Tsvetaeva … " – poet, People’s Artist of Russia, Artistic director of “The theater at the Nikitsky Gate” Mark Rozovsky.