Vera Polozkova and "The Work of Grief"

Vera Polozkova will perform on December 1 at the Odessa Philharmonic with a long-awaited concert and presentation of a new book. Vera: "The Work of Grief" is a book that has been collected, accumulated, and has grown for seven years in a row: difficult years, wonderful years, during which my three children were born, my marriage was concluded and disintegrated, the familiar picture of the world creaked and burst at the seam, wars began between the countries most dear to me, my friends passed away, people around me showed miracles of spiritual generosity or chose to betray everything they proclaimed and loved; when everything that I knew about myself, everything that I saw my future, time knocked over and turned inside out several times. This is a book about how closely all these states are intertwined in us: powerlessness, bitterness, love, rage, humility, despair, intoxication with the present. That growing up is exactly how we try to burn off that we are no longer omnipotent. The way we face our shadow, our weakness, the way we accept our own imperfection, the inequality of our expectations. This is a book that craft saves. That my soul has found its home, and this is a room with a veranda overlooking the ocean. This is a book about how balance, knowledge, the ability to rely only on yourself are much more expensive than we thought in our youth. But no matter how much we give for them, they are our most important gain.