This publication for the first time, in a volume approaching completeness, introduces the reader to the poetic work of the artist Pavel Yakovlevich Zaltsman (1912–1985). Zaltsman the poet, who went through the school of Pavel Filonov and was close to the OBERIU circle, managed in his works to combine formal experimentation with the spontaneity of poetic expression and convey the catastrophism of the era and the tragedy of the creative personality with unique expression. The texts are prepared based on materials from the poet’s handwritten archive and are accompanied by textual and real-life commentary.