Set Change by Yuri Andrukhovych (English) Paperback Book

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Set Change by Yuri Andrukhovych, Ostap Kin "This is an original selection of poems. It includes poems from Yuris three poetry collections -- Sky and Squares (Nebo i ploshchi; 1985), Downtown (Seredmistia; 1989), Exotic Birds and Plants (Ekzotychni ptakhy i roslyny; 1991) -- and two cycles, "India" (India) and "Letters to Ukraine" (Lysty v Ukraine)"-- FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the regions history of violence as seen through geography, myth, and city life.The first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the regions history of violence as seen through geography, myth, and city life.Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the most compelling and influential contemporary Ukranian writers, the author of a body of work that ranges from the novel to the essay to poetry and that stands out in every genre for being thoughtful, playful, free-spirited, and astonishingly new. His career took off in the waning years of the Soviet Union, when underground artists and writers and the rumbles of rock music coming from abroad all helped to bring the walls of the sclerotic Communist empire tumbling down. Set Change draws on the poetry Andrukhovych wrote in the eighties and nineties, before he turned his attention to prose. The collection shows him beginning on a quest to represent and do justice to Ukraines long history of violence. He explores the overlapping and shifting borders of Eastern Europe, while also venturing into realms of fantasy and myth. Again and again, he returns to the idea of the city as a space of carnivalesque disguise and discovery. Drawing on the rich resources of Ukranian literature, from the amplitude of the baroque to the austerely powerful configurations of the lost modernist generation, Andrukhovychs poems are ironic and elegiac, witty and allusive, lyrical, experimental, and political. As translated into English by John Hennessy and Ostap Kin, they offer readers a powerfully transformative vision of the place of poetry in a fractured world."Yuri Andrukhovych is one of the foremost Ukranian writers working today."-Piotr Florczyk, The Times Literary Supplement Author Biography Yuri Andrukhovych is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. In the mid 1980s, he cofounded the poetical group Bu-Ba-Bu (Burlesque-Blaster-Buffoonery), which rebelled against socialist realism and instead promoted a new poetic ethos of aesthetic freedom and the ludic. Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in contemporary Ukrainian literature, he is the recipient of the 2014 Hannah Arendt Prize and the 2016 Goethe Medal. He lives in Ukraine.Ostap Kin is a translator of Ukrainian poetry. He is the editor of New York Elegies- Ukrainian Poems on the City, which won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize for Best Translation, and his cotranslation with John Hennessy of Serhiy Zhadans A New Orthography was a cowinner of the Derek Walcott Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.John Hennessy is a poetry editor at The Common and the author of two poetry collections, Bridge and Tunnel and Coney Island Pilgrims. His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in The Best American Poetry 2013, Believer, Harvard Review, and HuffPost. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Details ISBN1681378841 Author Ostap Kin Pages 136 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc Year 2024 Translator John Hennessy ISBN-13 9781681378848 Format Paperback Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States Audience General Imprint NYRB Poets DEWEY 891.7144 Translated from Ukrainian Language English ISBN-10 1681378841 UK Release Date 2024-12-10 Publication Date 2024-11-26 US Release Date 2024-11-26 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! 30 DAY RETURN POLICY No questions asked, 30 day returns! FREE DELIVERY No matter where you are in the UK, delivery is free. SECURE PAYMENT Peace of mind by paying through PayPal and eBay Buyer Protection TheNile_Item_ID:168817819;

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