Church of the Backyard Fire: Poems

Here are Vladimir's mature poems of Cleveland and the Midwest, of neighborhoods and the homeless, of Vietnam veterans and poets seeking a voice. Each poem, it seems, more for the writer than the reader/listener, is a challenge not so much to comprehend the memory, the object, but to wrestle it, not really into submission but into some sort of cosmic draw, if you will, which is better than any of us do with life. Vladimir is in for the fight.

-Dan Rourke