Kirill Pomerantsev (1906–1991) - poet, journalist, literary critic, memoirist of the Russian diaspora. Since 1946, literary evenings were regularly held in Pomerantsev’s apartment, the regular participants of which were Ivan Bunin, Georgy Ivanov, Irina Odoevtseva, Boris Zaitsev, Yuri Odarchenko, Vladimir Smolensky and other poets and writers. Since the early 1950s, poetry, philosophical articles, critical Pomerantsev’s reviews and prose were widely published in all emigrant periodicals, including “New Journal”, “Renaissance”, “Bridges”, “Experiments”, “Continent”, “Russian Thought”, “New Russian Word” and others. In the almanac “Bridges”, in particular, his story “Italian Negatives” (No. 10, 1963 and No. 11, 1965), illustrated by Yuri Annenkov, was published. His extremely simple in form, almost conversational in intonation, poetry is deeply philosophical, filled with constant desire to higher knowledge, to a breakthrough into the area of timeless value guidelines, the faint reflections of which the poet sensitively caught in everyday phenomena. The basis for this collection of poems was the material posted on the page of Alexander Radashkevich - www.radashkevich.info/KD-Pomerancev