[1] Kazimierz Wierzyński was born in Drohobycz (Drohobych), Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria.

[3] His work Olympic Laurel (Polish: Laur olimpijski, 1927),[4] which idealizes the grace and fitness of athletes, won the gold medal for poetry at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam,[5][6] and his other early poems also celebrate the joy of living.

In September 1939, after the invasion of Poland by Nazi Germany, Wierzyński and his wife Helena escaped from Poland and, via Romania, Yugoslavia, Italy, and France, eventually reached the USA, where they stayed for almost twenty years.

[7] His later works, written in exile, are more somber and socially conscious.

The Bitter Crop (1933) includes poems about the United States.