Nikolay Alekseyevich Zabolotskiy (1903-1958), vydayushchiysya i interesneyshiy poet Rossii XX veka, proshel v literature slozhnyy put' - ot ritmicheskogo novatorstva i printsipial'no uslovnoy estetiki do prozrachnoy yasnosti klassicheskogo stikha. Etot sbornik vklyuchayet polnyy svod stikhotvoreniy i poem, sostavlennyy po literaturnomu zaveshchaniyu avtora.
