The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha Translated by the Author and James Brasfield |
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| Author:
| Lysheha, Oleh |
| Translator:
| Brasfield, James |
| Series title: | Harvard Ukrainian Research Inst Sources and Documents Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-916458-90-4 |
| Publication Date: | Dec 1999 |
| Publisher: | Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $24.95 |
Book Description:
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Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the USSR from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has steadily grown to legendary proportions. Collected here are facing-page English and Ukrainian versions of selected poems and a play, Friend Li Po, Brother Tu Fu.
Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the USSR from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has steadily grown to legendary proportions. Collected here are facing-page English and Ukrainian versions of selected poems and a play, Friend Li Po, Brother Tu Fu.