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A New Collection of Poems by One the Greatest Ukrainian Poet of the Twentieth Century Pavlo Tychyna Published
Pavlo Tychyna is arguably the greatest Ukrainian poet of the twentieth century and has been described as a "tillerman's Orpheus" by Ukrainian poet and literary critic Vasyl Barka.
LONDON, ENGLAND, February 09, 2017 /24-7PressRelease/ -- With his innovative poetics, deep spirituality and creative word play, Tychyna deserves a place among the pantheon of his European contemporaries such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Osip Mandelstam. His early collections such as Clarinets of the Sun (1918) mark the pinnacle of his creativity and poetically document the emotional and spiritual toll of the Revolution of 1917 as well as the Civil War and its aftermath in Ukraine.
John Fizer has noted Tychyna's close affinity with Walt Whitman's cosmism, particularly in his cycle In the Orchestra of the Cosmos. While Tychyna in many ways displays the moral conscience of his times in his early works, later in his life he acquiesced to Soviet authorities in order to survive the horrors of Stalin's regime. He was forced by authorities to refuse a nomination for the Nobel Prize, the only reason for which would have been his Ukrainian ethnicity.
This edition of Tychyna's complete early works includes translations of all his major early collections as well as his poetic masterpieces "Mother was Pealing Potatoes," "Funeral of My Friend," and his highly patriotic "In Memory of the Thirty." The volume includes a guest introduction by prominent Ukrainian poet Viktor Neborak.
Title: Pavlo Tychyna: The Complete Early Poetry Collections
Author: Pavlo Tychyna
Translator: Michael M. Naydan
Publisher: Glagoslav Publications
Language: English
ISBN: 9781911414209
Format: paperback, hardback, e-book
Review copies are available upon request.
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