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It makes sense to publish either only the best poems or all of them. When a poet has about seven hundred of them, it is hard to hope that all of them are the best. But, collected together and arranged in chronological order, these poems acquire a much broader meaning than a purely poetic one.

As a poet, Serhiy Zhadan is more or less the same age as Ukrainian independence. He has been writing poetry since the newest Ukraine existed, without long vacations or distinct crises, on average two a month. As a result, All the Poems is one of the most thorough histories of Ukraine over the past thirty years: with all our unexpected ups and downs, swings between left and right extremes, the murder of the syllabic tone and its resurrection, the repetition of the past and the search for new paths. As expected, there was a youthful rebellion in the beginning. As expected, today there is mature responsibility. In short, as Ukraine grows up, so does Zhadan. Or vice versa. In any case, the process is ongoing, so there is hope that in some time All the Poems will not be all there is to it.