The Poet

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>From the streets of Ufa to the great cultural crossroads of Russia The Poet tells the unforgettable story of Majid Khairullin a child prodigy whose gift for verse defies borders languages and regimes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Born of a Russian mother and a Tatar father Majid grew up reciting the classics of Pushkin and Lermontov while secretly absorbing the forbidden cadences of Tatar verse. His voice discovered on a sweltering spring day before a restless crowd soon becomes both a blessing and a danger: poetry becomes</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>his weapon his refuge and his destiny.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Through visions tragedy and triumph Th e Poet traces the making of an artist in a fractured world a young man torn between two heritages called to speak for both. Rich in history and alive with lyrical detail D. Thomas Gochenour's novel is at once a portrait of a boy becoming a man and of a poet learning that words can both illuminate and defy power.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A sweeping deeply human story of identity culture and the indomitable force of art.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In an era when words could spark revolutions and silence could kill dreams one boy discovers the power of his voice. D. Thomas Gochenour's The Poet is a moving journey of art faith and resistance-showing how poetry can defy oppression and heal the soul. A story that speaks to the dreamer the fighter and the believer in us all.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-Hollywood Book Reviews</span></p>