The title is a phrase from Otar Chiladze’s poem. It accurately describes the environment, the spiritual atmosphere where a poet dwells and struggles in order to survive and with his word give others a helping hand, make them stronger.

Tsisana Gendzekhadze’s book is interesting for many reasons: it has biographical notes, academic articles, readers’ impressions – all serving one single purpose of drawing Otar Chiladze’s personal and artistic portrait. Also, the readers will find his unpublished poems written in 1948-1950 from Tsisana Gendzekhadze’s personal archive.