About the book: year / Evgeny Sergeevich Gessen (January 23, 1910, St. Petersburg - 1942?) - poet of the “first wave” of Russian emigration. Member of the Prague literary association "Skeet". Mainly published in emigrant periodicals. I never published a collection of poems. He died of illness in one of the Nazi concentration camps. V. Khodasevich wrote about the almanacs of the “Skeet”: “...Now the most promising poets of the “Skeet”, besides Golovina, seem to us E. Chegrintseva, Evgeniy Gessen, Tatyana Ratgauz.” As Hessen himself said in one of the poems, for him “ writing poetry" means "thinking in poetry" and thinking not about lofty topics, but about the most everyday things: "about what is gloomy in the room, what is noisy in a strange city," etc.... Even the so familiar "lofty" a theme like love is revealed in his poems in an extremely everyday manner. Not too rich in the novelty of rhymes and images, Gessen’s poems, meanwhile, sound like a deep poetic confession, almost always hopelessly tragic, filled not with declarative, but with genuine human sadness. The basis of this collection of poems: the collection “Poets of the Prague Skete”. Rostock. 2005. From. 460-484.