Author: John D. Kershaw Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1465327207 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 282
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THE FARM AT NOVESTROKA is a story of two Ukrainian women and their struggle to survive during war and its aftermath. Irena Martsenyuk is a collective-farm woman whose peaceful life is shattered when German invaders sweep through the Ukraine. Her son is killed in battle, and her husband is ordered to serve with the partisans. Demands for food to feed the partisans drive her to the edge of starvation. Anya Trofimenko is a member of the village government. She evades the German occupation forces and acts as a spy for the partisans. As the battle for liberation heats up, she and Irena Martsenyuk hide away in a pig hut under the snow while the Red army is driving out the enemy. After the enemy is gone, she finds herself the only government official at hand to run the village and the adjacent collective farm.
Author: Bohdan Ihor Antonych Publisher: Glagoslav Publications ISBN: 1911414372 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 103
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The extraordinarily inventive Ukrainian poet and literary critic Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-1937), the son of a Catholic priest, died prematurely at the early age of 28 of pneumonia. Originally from the mountainous Lemko region in Poland, where a variant of Ukrainian is spoken, he was home-schooled for the first eleven years of his life because of frequent illness. He began to write poetry in Ukrainian after he moved to the Western Ukrainian city of Lviv to continue his studies at the University of Lviv. He published just three collections of poetry in his lifetime: A Greeting to Life (1931), Three Rings (1934), and The Book of the Lion (1936), with the latter two firmly establishing his reputation as one of the best poets of his time in Ukraine. Three additional collections, The Green Gospel (1938), Rotations (1938), and The Grand Harmony (1967), were published posthumously. A collection of poems on religious themes written in 1932 and 1933, The Grand Harmonyis a subtle and supple examination of Antonych’s intimately personal journey to faith, with all its revelatory verities as well as self-questioning and doubt. The collection marks the beginning of Antonych’s development into one of the greatest poets of his time. During Soviet times it was banned for its religious content. It was first published in its entirety in 1967 in New York. The Grand Harmony first appeared in English translation in a bilingual edition with Litopys Publishers in 2007, which has long been sold out. The poems “Musica Noctis,” “De Morte I,” “Ars Poetica 1” and “Liber Peregrinorum 3” were reprinted in The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych: Ecstasies and Elegies (Bucknell University Press, 2010). One can find additional poetic renderings of Antonych’s selected poetry in the translations of various well-known American poets under the title A Square of Angels (Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1977), which was edited by Bohdan Boychuk.
Author: John D. Kershaw
Author: Bohdan Ihor Antonych