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Publication Date
8-16-2024
Description
Lemko-Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-37) is not as well-known as Slavic modernist poets Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Milosz, or their Western European counterparts Eliot, Rilke, and Lorca, but he unquestionably should be. Sometimes compared to Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas, Antonych, who described himself as “an ecstatic pagan, a poet of the high of spring,” created during his brief lifetime powerful and innovative poetry with astonishing metaphorical constructions. Born in the Lemko region of Poland, Antonych adopted Ukrainian as his literary language when he moved to Lviv, and virtually transformed the Ukrainian poetic landscape. This essential collection introduces Antonych’s work to new audiences, and includes a biographical sketch by the translator and a comprehensive introduction by Lidia Stefanowska, one of the world’s leading experts on this remarkable poet.
Keywords
Bohdan Ihor Antonych, poetry, poem, Lemko-Ukrainian, A Greeting to Life, The Grand Harmony, Three Rings, The Book of the Lion, The Green Gospel, Rotations, poetry anthology, slavic poetry, ukrainian poetry, Ukrainian modernist poetry, Avant-garde poetry, 20th-century Ukrainian literature, Symbolist poetry, Krakow Avant-garde, Nature poetry, Alternative religiosity, Ukrainian Modernism, Ukraine, Lemko, former Soviet Union
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eng
ISBN
9781684485307