Dedicated to everyone who's currently feeling down. Meet this new collection of inimitable verbal circus, where, like in a good clown show, sadness turns to mirth, and one doesn't exist without the other, where words are masterfully juggled, and you can even talk to the ceiling. Everyone, join the circus! After all, 'the Universe is heavy in a state of sadness' and we need to somehow return to Earth.

5 reasons to buy the book 'State of Sadness':

• Fresh poems from our favorite from 'Physics Tuzik' Alexey Zaitsev;

• The first collection of poems was awarded the Chukovsky Prize;

• Alexey Zaitsev never tires of juggling and playing with words so that both children and adults have fun;

• This is also a small textbook of poetic techniques - consonances, illogicalities, paradoxes and allusions, what can't you find here!

• State of sadness is a very precise and necessary term for all of us, indicating the vector of movement towards cheerfulness.

Author: Alexey Zaitsev