The little swimmer contains eight poems by the contemporary poet Nikolai Kononov, born in Saratov (1958), now living in St. Petersburg. The poet himself wrote the poems on the stone with a steel pen. Karasik added the coloured lines and page numbers in red. the whole was printed on the backside of the 1989 soviet poster “perestroika. uskorenie. glasnost” by the artist V. Trubanov. The poster was cut up into 16 pieces or 32
pages with the even pages showing part of the poster while the odd pages showing the lithographed poems. The pages are stitched inside a black paper cover which is held in a white cardboard slipcase, both have collage additions. to help the reader a booklet with the poems in regular offset print was added at the end to all 36 copies of the edition.