Лера Сом – педагог, паэтка, артыстка, палітычная актывістка, вялікая арганізатарка, маці. Усе падкрэсліваюць здольнасць гэтай жанчыны адстойваць свае перакананні. Калегі па партыі называюць Леру Сом абліччам БНФ, у школе яна – адна з найлепшых выкладчыц беларускай мовы, удзельнікі моладзевага гурта «Індра» мяркуюць, што яна «найлепшая паэтка – аўтарка песенных тэкстаў», хоць паміж імі і ёю – 20-гадовая розніца ва ўзросце. Яна сама сябе ... More »

The poems about love are poems for the heart and about heart. The poems are very personal. The queen is the one you’d like to visit. It is a great honor to sit at the queen’s kitchen, read poems, present a flower and have a cup of coffee sitting next to the queen. No, I do not mean her, but us. One would like to feel oneself a queen who comes in one’s dream at night to invade your life, thoughts and dreams. I am the queen. Every woman i... More »

One can read the title in several different ways. By placing commas after each word, you get a triptych. One can interpret the title as freedom of expression or freedom in winter, of freedom of expression in winter. You can read it as you want. The collection actually consists of four sections: All We Are Philosophers, Man, Woman, and Classical Practice. The verses correspond to the section titles – Section I includes philosophical an... More »

The collection There, In Heaven comprises 73 poems by Lera Som. Some of them are philosophical, others are about love. Some are easy and some are thoughtful. Some verses are lyrical. Lera Som’s poems are a reflection of her soul, pure and light, clear, feminine, cozy, sensitive and responsive. A soul without which the world is not a world and life is not a life. (N.H.) More »