Nycticorax in ruinis: Collection of poems

"Nycticorax in ruinis" is translated as "An Owl of the Desert".
The subjects of poems are faith, loneliness, friendship, and the rare admiration for a beautiful and impish fifteen-year-old boy. He has "the angelic line of the cheek, / the defiant yet innocent gaze/ of the profound eyes with the gleam of amber in the dark,/ the gold hair - a touch of high summer,/ the figure of Donatello's David, with the sword of a tormenting beauty..."
Some poems are dedicated to the Swedish composer Joseph Martin Kraus, the great conqueror Timur (Tamerlane), and a boy found in a peat bog in Germany where his body had been resting for two thousand years (he is known as Windeby I).
Besides, the book includes the English translations of some poems by the French author Armand Le Belly (1838-1864) and the Swedish poet Erik Julius Sjöberg (1794-1828).
Book is well illustrated throughout.
Poems are published in the English original and the author's translation into Russian.