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Adam Zagajewski is one of the brightest contemporary Polish poets. He was born in Lviv in 1945. He first came to prominence in Poland as a poet of the dissident New Wave generation in 1968. Over time, Adam Zagajewski became known not only as the author of poetry collections, but also as a prose writer and essayist. However, in 1975, he stopped being published in Poland. In 1982, he emigrated and for many years lived in Paris, then later in Krakow, where he had the opportunity to teach at the Jagiellonian University, and in Houston (USA), where he was a professor of English literature. Zagajewski died in Krakow on 21 March 2021. This is the first collection of Adam Zagajewski's poetry translated into Ukrainian.