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Winter King
Ostap Slyvynsky; Translated by Vitaly Chernetsky, Iryna Shuvalova
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The Winter King by Ostap Slyvynsky presents a selection from a
decade and a half worth of work by one of Ukraine's most prominent
contemporary voices in poetry. Slyvynsky is the poet of everyday
things. He writes of children's games, old trees, and family
stories. Yet, what emerges from under his pen is a portrait of an
era. His writing, simultaneously delicate and unflinchingly
incisive, like a surgeon's hand, always probes for the bottomless
depths gaping behind the mundane. Perhaps the greatest of
Slyvynsky's gifts as a poet is his ability to examine individual
voices and memories for traces of larger historical events without
ever trivializing the former in the face of the latter. His spare,
lean poems unearth a complex and layered human reality that is both
universal and strikingly, almost painfully rooted in the landscape
that birthed it, be it the poet's family home in the Carpathian
mountains or the Maidan square in Kyiv, aflame with revolution.
Slyvynsky's remarkable attention to detail results in strikingly
beautiful and enigmatic texts that invite multiple re-readings,
each peeling off yet another layer of reality. However, what always
remains at the core after these layers are stripped off is the
poet's profound humanity. Drawing on three of Slyvynsky's earlier
poetry collections, this volume also includes some of his most
recent poems--arguably, among the poet's best.
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