Crowning the Scarecrow
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A perspective on the Ukrainian conscience in Lviv, 1968-1969. Selected Poems.
Kalynets is one of the first modernist poets of contemporary Ukraine, having survived Moscow’s attempt to “Russify” all national cultures in the Soviet Union. Now, with perestroika, the great poets of these cultures are emerging in the larger world, and English readers will discover, among so many other “unknowns,” the vision of Kalynets.
Translated by Marco Carynnyk
Bilingual Ukrainian/English
Poetry; 1990 • 6 x 9 inches • PB 125 pages • 978-0-92042-851-1
Ihor Kalynets, who was born in Western Ukraine in 1929, is the author of seventeen books of poetry, which have been called “the most sophisticated modern poetry yet to appear in the Ukraine.” Drawing on pagan antiquity and folk beliefs, Kalynets mixes metaphysical contemplations with erotic imagery and social criticism. Because of his unconventional poetics and his spirited defence of human rights in the Ukraine, only one of his books has been published there, and even that one was immediately banned. In 1972, along with his wife Iryna Stasiv – a human-rights activist and a poet in her own right – Kalynets was sentenced to six years of imprisonment and three years of exile. He now lives in Lviv.
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