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Alfred Gong (1920-1981) was a fellow Chernivtsi resident and school friend of Paul Celan. His lyrical work is marked by the richness and diversity of existential issues. It touches upon the themes of humanism and barbarism, love and death, environmental protection and the nuclear threat, the longing for a better world and the search for the meaning of life. Filled with biting irony, sharp sarcasm and genuine grotesquerie, experimental in rhythm and form, his poems break social, moral and psychological taboos, cultivate a "low" style that does not avoid dialectics and jargon, but often resorts to concepts from scientific fields. This publication is the first attempt to give a representative cross-section of the work of this extraordinary poet, almost unknown in Ukraine.