The selected poems of Oleh Lysheha / translated by the author and James Brasfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lysheha, Oleh, 1949-2014.

Contributor:

Brasfield, James.

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies

Standardized Title:

Poems. Selections. English & Ukrainian

Language:

English

Ukrainian

Subjects (All):

Lysheha, Oleh, 1949-2014--Translations into English.

Lysheha, Oleh.

Lysheha, Oleh, 1949-2014.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xxvii, 121 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Distributed by Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, [1999]

Language Note:

English and Ukrainian.

Summary:

Oleh Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has steadily grown to legendary proportions. His work is informed by transcendentalism and Zen-like introspection, with meditations on the essence of the human experience and man's place in nature. James Brasfield studied poetry and translation with Joseph Brodsky, Derek Walcott, Daniel Halpern, and other luminaries. He served as an editorial assistant for poetry at "The Paris Review," and now teaches English at Pennsylvania State University. "The Collected Poems" here include facing-page English and Ukrainian versions of selected poems and a play, "Friend Li Po. Brother Tu Fu." It represents a rare example of translations that are as beautiful as the original poetry and poems that anyone interested in the written word will appreciate.

Notes:

Includes also one play.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

0916458903

OCLC:

43471736