In emigration Balmont published several books of poetry, including "A Gift to Earth" (Дар Земле), "Lightened Hour" (Светлый час, both 1921), "The Haze" (Марево, 1922), "From Me to Her. Poems of Russia" (Моё — ей. Стихи о России, 1923), "Beyond Stretched Horizons" (В раздвинутой дали, 1929), "Northern Lights" (Северное сияние, 1933), "Blue Horseshoe" (Голубая подкова) and "Serving the Light" (Светослужение, both 1937). He released autobiographies and memoirs: "Under the New Sickle" (Под новым серпом), "The Airy Path" (Воздушный путь, both 1923) and "Where Is My Home?" (Где мой дом?, Prague, 1924). Balmont's poetry in emigration was criticized by Vladimir Nabokov who called his verse "jarring" and "its new melodies false." Nina Berberova argued that Balmont had exhausted his muse while in Russia and that none of his later work was worthy of attention. Modern Russian critics assess Balmont's last books more favorably, seeing them as more accessible and insightful, even if less flamboyant than his best known work. The poet and biographer Nikolai Bannikov called the poems "Pines in Dunes" (Дюнные сосны) and "Russian Language" (Русский язык) "little masterpieces". From the mid-1920s Balmont turned his gaze to Eastern Europe, traveling to centers of the Russian emigration in Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Bulgaria, translating poetry from their languages, and adapting their folklore in his own original work.