No Limits: Modern Poetry For Modern People

by Victoria Silchenko, Sandro Monetti (Introduction), Gulli Rogg (Photographer)

Victoria Silchenko’s poems are an exceptional representation of the intellect, style and self-power revealed by the beautiful mind of a modern cosmopolitan woman. Victoria Silchenko can undoubtedly be called a pioneer in creating a novel, contemporary style of Intelligent Poetry – the kind that makes you think as much as it makes you feel while giving you an abstract vision for your thoughts and your feelings. As an independent business woman and world traveler who was born in Russia and moved to the United States a decade ago, Victoria is a Renaissance woman who plays piano, paints with oils but, most importantly, sets her own agenda for personal achievement and embraces her destiny as not a challenge, but the opportunity to learn “the highest truth” and “rise above” while being determined to not be intimidated by the society’s settings or destroyed by external circumstances. Victoria brings to her poems a notorious Russian deepness and profoundness mixed with the open-mindedness and exuberance typical among natives of Southern California, where she currently resides. An economist and a financier by education, Victoria has worked with world renowned figures such as Michael Milken (“King of junk bonds”) and Dr. Arthur Laffer (former economic adviser for President Reagan). Both of them, as Victoria admits, have influenced her poetic style as much as Arthur Schopenhauer, Boris Pasternak, Joseph Brodsky, Oscar Wilde, Ayn Rand and Albert Einstein. Her book, “No Modern Poetry For Modern People,” is a brave and encouraging debut where she shows her artistic side while promoting rather unpopular these days virtues such as loyalty and compassion and recognizing that, as one of her poems says, “she is on a mission to disappear beautifully in a flow of her thoughts”.

49 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 15, 2012