ALEXANDER LEVIN was born on March 14, 1957. Having graduated from college as a computer engineer, his occupations include computer journalism, editing, literary works, writing poetry and music. He started to write music at an age of 14 and poetry at 20. His first collections of poems - Poetry (1985), Lingvoplastica (1987), and Biomechanica (1990) - appeared in the Samizdat because the Internet did not exist at the time. His first book, Biomechanica (Selected Poems 1983-1995, Moscow, 1995)