Title: The Evenings and the Mornings
Author: Ilya Sapozhnikov
Publisher: XlibrisUS
ISBN: 978-1-9845-4231-1
Pages: 96
Genre: Poetry
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Synopsis
This book is an attempt to ask the universal questions related to the human condition in the dynamic of life: the parting from loved ones, the irreversible changes brought about by aging perceived mainly by the bystanders, the consoling power of the memories of childhood, the never-withering desire to be understood and loved, the fears and the hopes for a better tomorrow, the firm belief that everything that happens to someone is not accidental. These questions come to everybody but are asked loudly, with the hope to reach the souls of the readers by the author of this book. The answers to these eternal questions are always open.
About the Author
Ilya Sapozhnikov has been born, raised, educated, received his degrees of the M.D. and Ph.D., worked as a physician and a scientist in the field of the preventative cardiology in Moscow, in the former Soviet Union. His interactions with the patients always included not only the assessment of their physical condition but an attempt to understand the emotional and existential aspects of their personality to be able to help more effectively. This approach has been probably an unconscious expression of his literary, humanistic interests. In the very beginning of 1991, Ilya Sapozhnikov together with his family has immigrated to the USA. He teaches now the medicine-related courses in Biology at the University of Texas at Dallas.Although during his professional career Ilya Sapozhnikov has authored or coauthored more than the seventy scientific papers and four books, “The Evenings and The Mornings” is his first book of poetry. In this book, Ilya Sapozhnikov asks the universal questions related to the human condition. These questions come silently to everyone in certain periods of life but are asked loudly, with the hope to reach the souls of the readers by the author of this collection of poems.
