U Olega Hlebnikova slozhilas' kniga, kotoruyu on sam nazval romanom v poemah. Slozhilas' kak zhizn'. Kak skazal dvadtsat' s lishnim let nazad David Samoylov — "v stihah Olega Hlebnikova est' kartina mira". Sud'ba liricheskogo geroya (vryad li on mnogim otlichaetsya ot avtora) i sud'by okruzhavshih ego lyudey skladyvayutsya na fone otechestvennoy istorii. Da oni sami i est' eta istoriya. I tot sovsem blizhniy krug, kogo avtor schitaet brat'yami — Yuriy Schekochihin, Aleksandr Aronov, "Tolik, Andryushka, Pashka"… I sosedi po poeme "Ulitsa Pavlenko" v Peredelkine: Boris Pasternak, Korney Chukovskiy, Bulat Okudzhava, Arseniy Tarkovskiy, Iosif Brodskiy, Andrey Voznesenskiy, Evgeniy Evtushenko — "I slovo drug / vmeste s ottsom i synom / troitsu sostavlyalo…"
