Поэтика апофатики в книге Б. Херсонского Missa in tempore belli. Месса во времена войны

This article analyzes the book of poems Missa in tempore belli. Messa vo vremena voiny (Missa in tempore belli. War-Time Liturgy) by the Ukrainian author Boris Khersonskii. The book is dedicated to current political events, but did not receive coverage in Russian journals. This article analyzes the book of poetry as a complex art unity, formed not only through thematic leitmotifs, but also by way of subject organization, architectonics and framing texts. The author uses liturgy to rationalize the chaos of historical events, translating them into a trans-historic aspect. The abundance of negative word formations are linked to apophaticism and the lyric hero's view of inter-ethnic conflicts, the origins of which he locates in the Soviet past. The central concept for determining Khersonskii's position becomes the ritual of the Eucharist (Holy Communion). The author links this work with M. Voloshin's Putiami Kaina (Ways of Cain) and current political poetry, and comments on Khersonskii's poetic strategy and new trends of “post-documentality” in contemporary art emphasizes.