V knige predmetom obstoyatel'nogo analiza stali vse poemy Anny Akhmatovoy: ne tol'ko khorosho izvestnye Rekviem i Poema bez geroya, no i fakticheski ne issledovannye U samogo morya i Putem vseya zemli. Rassmotrennye v svete deystviya mekhanizma pamyati kul'tury, v aspekte dialoga poeta s kul'turoy proshlogo i nastoyashchego poemy Akhmatovoy vpervye osmysleny kak nekoe dinamichnoe khudozhestvennoe tseloe, kak edinyy tekst, vpisannyy poetom v obshchiy tekst russkoy literatury. Predlagaetsya vzglyad na poemu A.Akhmatovoy kak na novuyu zhanrovo-stilevuyu paradigmu, v znachitel'noy stepeni opredelivshuyu vse dal'neyshee razvitie etogo zhanra. Kniga adresovana prepodavatelyam russkoy literatury, studentam i aspirantam filologicheskikh spetsial'nostey, a takzhe vsem tem, kto interesuetsya russkoy poeziey KhKh veka.