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This is followed by a selection from Kobzar: “Zaspiw,” “My thirteenth has passed,” “Ivan Pidkova,” “Hamalia,” “The Plague,” “The Death of the Ostap,” “Orphan’s Easter,” “The Bequest”—a total of over forty texts. Difficult and archaic words are explained in footnotes, and short notes on Skutar, the Bosphorus, and Khortytsia have also been added to “Hamalia.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTaras Shevchenko (1814–1861) was a poet and painter, born into serfdom and manumitted in 1838; Kobzar, first published in 1840, became the book around which Ukrainian national consciousness revolved on both sides of the Austro-Russian border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the poet’s death and was published by the Ukrainian Pedagogical Society—an institution that had maintained a private Ukrainian school in Galicia at its own expense since 1881 and received the name “Ridna Shkola” in 1926. Printed at the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press. 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It is followed by an analysis of the history of the manuscript, discovered in 1795 by Count Musin-Pushkin and burned in 1812, controversies over the author, the historical background of the 1185 campaign, language and rhythm; the full text of the poem is presented in free verse divided into twenty-eight parts, from the “Introductory Song” to the final “Amen.” The toponymy is consistently Ukrainian: Kyjiv, Halyč, Novhorod-Sivers'kyj, Putyvl'.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993) — poet, painter, art historian, and translator, full member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 1952, vice-president of the writers’ association Slovo. He made the German translation together with Lidia Kaczurowska-Kriukova — the same translator with whom he prepared the Munich German edition of “The Ukrainian Icon of the 12th–18th Centuries” (1980). The illustrations and vignettes were created by Petro Andrusiv (1906–1981) — a graduate of the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, co-founder of the Spokiy group in Philadelphia since 1947; his large compositions on themes from the princely and Cossack eras have traveled through Ukrainian textbooks for years. The plate illustrations for this edition are dated 1955, meaning they were created during the author’s lifetime and selected from his available body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Ukrainian Free University, founded in Vienna in 1921 and operating in Munich since 1945, published the “Monographien” series in small print runs for scholarly circulation; “Das Ihorlied” — volume 39 of the series, Hordynskyi’s last major work as a medievalist. 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The poems are presented according to their collections, beginning with “Greetings of Life” (1931), with the sections “The Breakaway and the Wings” and “Bronze Muscles”; at the end of the book are “The Green Gospel,” the opera “Dovbush” (in three acts), an excerpt from the unfinished novel “On the Other Shore,” the essay “Monumental Realism,” and notes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAntonych was born on October 5, 1909, in the village of Novytsia in Lemkivshchyna, into the family of a Greek Catholic priest. He studied at Lviv University, where he earned a Master of Philosophy degree in 1934, and died in Lviv on July 6, 1937, at the age of twenty-seven. Three collections were published during his lifetime—“Greetings of Life,” “Three Rings,” and “The Book of the Lion”; “The Green Gospel” and “Rotations” were published in 1938, after the poet’s death.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA year earlier, another book by the poet, “The Rings of Youth,” was published in Czechoslovakia in Přešov. 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The introductory “Ivan Franko, Biographical Sketch” (pp. 5–92), signed by Vasyl Vernivolyi—Symovych’s pseudonym—was therefore written by the same person, although catalogs sometimes attribute the two articles to different authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSections: “De Profundis,” “Profiles and Masks,” “Sonnets,” “Galician Images,” “Jewish Melodies,” “Lords’ Jokes,” “Legends,” with “Withered Leaves” and “Great Anniversaries” in the appendix; the collection opens with “Hymn” (“Eternal Revolutionary”). 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On the title page, the title is covered by a publisher's sticker with the word \"...POLOK,\" beneath which the printed \"POYED...\" is visible; below is the \"Nashim Dityam OPDL\" mark. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLifetime edition. The book is of collector's interest, and the graphic design has independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA rhyming story about how fear grows. A boy named Ulas falls asleep in a field, and mosquitoes gather over him — and from this trifle, an avalanche begins: a hamster calls a quail, and a partridge and a thrush spread the word \"trouble, trouble,\" a crayfish summons the fish, and a bear finally frightens the company with a story about three forty-legged monsters whose gaze turns them to stone. 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The anthology includes 45 poets, grouped in three sections: early versifiers and authors of folklore works; interwar poets; and postwar poets, together with the youngest generation—from Metropolitan Illary and Mykyta Mandryka to Oleh Zuyevsky, Lida Paliia, and Iryna Makaryk. Each section opens with a biographical sketch and critical bibliography.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYar Slavutych (real name Zhuchenko, 1918–2011) was a poet, literary scholar, and educator, born in the Kherson region. In postwar Germany, he served as the editorial secretary of the Munich monthly “Arka,” and from 1949 he lived in the United States, and from 1960 in Edmonton, where he taught Ukrainian language and literature at the University of Alberta. 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On the reverse of the title page, it is noted that the book was published by order of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOriginal illustrated edition cover: abstract geometric composition in black on cream — cut hatched triangles, the author's name in a constructivist hand-drawn font, the title in a handwritten yellow-red inscription; on the back cover, the same composition without text. The block is fastened with two wire staples and holds firmly. Paper with uniform natural yellowing, occasional small spots on the cover, light creases along the edges. No losses. On the reverse of the title page — blind embossing of the cover inscription, pressed during printing. On the inside of the back cover, there is an illegible pencil inscription. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value as one of the first Ukrainian editions of Stus, compiled from materials that until then had been kept in the archives of the KGB.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the compiler, at least half of the poems included here had not been published until recently because they were in the KGB archives. The backbone of the collection consists of the works of the \"sole reader\" — versions of poems that Stus sent in letters to Opanasova Zalyvaska and his relatives, with each recipient receiving their own unique version of the text. The second layer — early sketches from nature and impressions of \"The Chronicle of Samovydets\". This includes \"The pine burns — from the bottom up...\", \"Kyiv Beggar\", \"Damn! Bronze Mephistopheles...\", and a separate section — the cycle of short free verse poems \"Rin\". The book concludes with translations from Kipling, Arthur Rimbaud, Rilke, and Marina Tsvetaeva, \"Elegy to Marina\", and brief biographical details. In the \"Foreword\", Dmytro Stus directly polemizes with the \"professional patriots\" who create the image of a fighter-poet, and explains his selection with the desire to show his father primarily as an artist, a \"master of the game\", rather than a martyr.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Stus (1938–1985) — poet, translator, literary scholar, member of the Helsinki Accords Implementation Group. During his thirteen years of captivity, he studied three foreign languages; died in the solitary confinement cell of camp VS-389\/36 in the Perm region on the night of September 4, 1985. The main body of his mature lyric poetry — \"Palimpsests\" — until then existed only in samizdat and overseas editions; some of the texts were recorded at the time from Radio Liberty broadcasts read by Nadia Svitlychna and distributed in samizdat.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe little book was published by the editorial office of the journal \"Slovo i Chas\" by order of the Ministry of Education of Ukraine with a print run of 10,000 copies — on thin paper, in a softcover, stapled. Such editions from the early years of independence wore out quickly and rarely survive today in pristine condition. Volodymyr Smirnov's design, executed in the spirit of 1920s book constructivism, distinguishes this collection among the modest printing of that time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589833666931,"sku":"SKU-00298","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528945811827.jpg?v=1793988345"},{"product_id":"kalynets-ihor-poezii-z-ukrainy-briussel-1970","title":"Kalynets Ihor. Poetry from Ukraine: a second collection of poems. Brussels, 1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“...poems in which some obscured passages had to be deciphered or revealed, like some medieval palimpsest.”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIhor Kalynets. Poetry from Ukraine: a second collection of poems \/ [foreword by R. Semkovych; illustrations by B. 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The disclaimer did not prevent the consequences: Kalynets was arrested in 1972, and criminal charges were brought against Bohdan Soroka, the illustrator, who was banned from exhibiting for an entire decade.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAccording to the poet’s conception, the collection is a nativity play: “Act I” and “Act II,” separated by the interlude “My Ancient Voice”—a cycle of poems based on paintings by O. Novakivskyi, M. Sosenko, O. Kulchytska, and P. Obalia, reproduced here as well. Alongside them are Khodoriv, Halych, Krylos, Sambir, stone babas, Perun, and carollers. The author’s title, “The Opening of the Nativity Play,” did not return to the book until later editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIhor Kalynets (1939–2025) was a poet from Khodoriv and one of the leading voices of the Lviv Sixtiers; his debut collection, “Kupala Fire” (Kyiv, 1966), was withdrawn from sale shortly after publication. After spending nine years in camps and exile following his arrest, he was awarded the Shevchenko Prize in 1992. Bohdan Soroka (1940–2015), son of political prisoners Mykhailo Soroka and Kateryna Zarytska, was born in a Lviv prison; his engravings for this collection, featuring pagan and nativity play motifs, became one of the most famous aspects of his work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589836091763,"sku":"SKU-00317","price":9000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528947122547.jpg?v=1793985214"},{"product_id":"kocherha-svichchyne-vesillia-1971","title":"Kocherha Ivan. Svichchyne Wedding \/ linocut engravings by Heorhii Yakutovych. Kyiv, 1971","description":"\u003cp\u003eIvan Kocherha. Svichchyne Vesillya \/ linocuts and design by artist H. V. Yakutovych.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eKyiv: Dnipro Publishing House, 1971. — 22 × 17 cm. — Format 70 × 90\/16. — Print run: 13,000 copies. — List price: 1 rub. 61 kop. — Zhovten Book Factory, Kyiv.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher's dust jacket of cream paper: covering the entire surface — a linocut of a castle on a cliff and clouds of smoke, with the author's name and title at the top in red within decorative cartouches. The dust jacket is clean, with barely noticeable wear along the edges and spine, corners are even, no tears. The block is firm, binding intact; paper is white, without stains, linocuts are printed contrastingly in the text. No inscriptions, stamps, or ex libris. Condition: very good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHeorhii Yakutovych's illustrations are of independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA dramatic poem about 15th-century Kyiv craftsmen, who are forbidden by municipal privilege to light candles in the evening, and about Ivan Svichko, who carries a lit candle through the entire city. Written in 1930, the play became one of the most famous Ukrainian verse dramas; the image of a fire that cannot be extinguished was read differently in every edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIvan Kocherha (1881–1952) — playwright, author of \"Yaroslav the Wise\", \"Songs about Svichko\" and \"Masters of Time\"; wrote primarily verse drama based on historical material. 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I–II \/ [compiled, edited, and prefaced by Yulian Romanchuk].\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLviv: published by the Prosvita Society, 1912. — Vol. I: 552 pp.; Vol. II: 532 pp.: illus. — (Ruska Pysmennytstvo; V, 1–2). — Printed by the Shevchenko Scientific Society Press. — Printed in 10,000 copies; price of a loose copy 1 K 60 s, in a fine binding 2 K.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn publisher’s bindings in blue calfskin: on the front boards, a frame with corner ornaments in black and gold, the series title with number, “Works of Taras Shevchenko,” and volume designation; in the center, a portrait of the poet in an oval, surrounded by a golden wreath of wheat ears and palm branches; on the spine, gold and black tooling; on the back boards, blind-stamped frame and publisher’s emblem. The volumes are in two binding variants: the first in dark blue calfskin, with the series title “Ruska Pysmennytstvo,” a black-and-white portrait of the young poet, and olive-green patterned endpapers; the second in a lighter, faded calfskin, with the series title “Ukrainske Pysmennytstvo,” a toned portrait of mature Shevchenko, and brown endpapers with a small floral ornament. The calfskin is rubbed, the edges and corners worn to the base, corners bumped; on the spine of the first volume, the gold is almost rubbed off, the cloth at the top and bottom of the spine is frayed; on the back board of the second volume, dark stains in the upper half, on the front board—a stain on the word “second.” The endpaper of the second volume is torn along the front joint. The paper has an even yellowing; in the second volume, there is an old repair in the head margin of one of the first leaves and a stain on the outer margin of the table of contents. In the first volume, on the front endpaper twice and on the verso of the title page, a purple oval stamp “Library of Karl Povkha” with a field for the number, on the endpaper number “č. 812.,” in pencil “K 1.50,” and another faded oval stamp; on p. 552, a stamp “From the collection of P. I. Arsenych.” In the second volume, on p. 532, a blue-purple stamp “Library of Dr. V. Symovych.” Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collecting interest; the publisher’s bindings with portraits of the poet are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAt the end of the second volume, a poem is printed that was found only in the summer of 1907 in the archive of the Department of Police in St. Petersburg: it had been in an album confiscated from Shevchenko during a search in Orenburg in 1850. In the preface to the first edition, reprinted here, Yulian Romanchuk explains how his text differs from previous ones: he added the newly discovered “Imitations of Ezekiel” and “The Holy Fool,” restored omitted passages in “Kateryna,” “Psalms of David,” and “Ivan the Goose,” removed poems that were not by Shevchenko, although they had appeared in uncensored editions, and corrected over fifty passages in “The Non-Believers” themselves. The poems are arranged by form and content, with chronology within the sections: the first volume—“Before Exile” (1838–first half of 1847), the second opens with the section “In Exile” (second half of 1847–1857). There are also “The Most Important Dates of My Life,” the poet’s autobiographical letter, the drama “Nazar Stodola,” and illustrations, including “Shevchenko as a Soldier in 1848” and “Shevchenko’s Grave in Kaniv.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYulian Romanchuk (1842–1932) was an educator, publicist, and politician, a member of the Austrian Parliament, and one of the leading figures of Prosvita. In 1904, he founded the series of Ukrainian classics “Ruska Pysmennytstvo” and himself edited 23 of its 28 volumes; after World War I, the series was renamed “Ukrainske Pysmennytstvo.” Shevchenko’s works appeared in Prosvita under his editorship three times: “Poems” in 1902, the two-volume “Works” in 1907, and this, the third edition, in 1912, with a print run of 10,000 copies. The second volume was bound with the new series title—most likely from the post-war print run.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe set was assembled from books from two libraries. The first volume stood in the book collection of Karl Povkha—hence the stamps with a field for the number and the number “č. 812” on the endpaper; on p. 552—a stamp from the collection of Petro Arsenych (1934–2017), an Ivano-Frankivsk historian, museum curator, and ethnographer, and member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society. On the second volume—a stamp “Library of Dr. V. Symovych”: the same inscription appears on the books of Vasyl Symovych (1880–1944), a linguist, rector of the Ukrainian Pedagogical Institute named after M. Drahomanov in Prague in 1926–1930, and secretary of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv from 1933. Symovych also worked on Shevchenko himself: in 1921, he prepared a popular edition of “Kobzar” with explanations and notes. He bequeathed the main part of his book collection to Chernivtsi University, and in 1962, after his wife’s death, over 2,600 items were transported there intact from Lviv.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":64589839237491,"sku":"SKU-00345","price":12000.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528949285235.jpg?v=1793985207"},{"product_id":"antonych-zibrani-tvory-niu-york-vinnipeg-1967","title":"Antonych Bohdan Ihor. Collected Works = Collected Works. New York; Winnipeg, 1967","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“With the rushing wind in my wild hair! to be forever young, forever young!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBohdan Ihor Antonych, 1909–1937. Collected Works \/ edited by Sviatoslav Hordynskyi and Bohdan Rubchak; cover design by Yakiv Hnyzdovskyi; illustrations by Volodymyr Lasovskyi.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eNew York; Winnipeg: Slovo, Association of Ukrainian Writers in Exile, 1967. — 399 pp.: ill., portr. — 23 × 16 cm. — Printed by Trident Press Ltd., Winnipeg. — Published through the efforts of the Organization for the Defense of Lemko Land in America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCream paper dust jacket: on the front, a brick-red image of a tree with a rounded crown and the name “Antonych” in a decorative frame with curls — by Yakiv Hnyzdovskyi; the spine features the same typographic design with the author’s name and title. The dust jacket has light soiling and wear along the edges and corners; the back is scattered with foxing and occasional dark spots, and there is an ink mark in the upper right corner of the front. The paper is slightly yellowed along the edges, the text block is firm, the binding is intact, and the text is clean. The title page bears a blue “GIFT” stamp. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; Yakiv Hnyzdovskyi’s cover design is of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe volume brings together Antonych’s poetry books from “Greetings to Life” (1931) to posthumous collections, adds prose — including excerpts from the unfinished novella “On the Other Shore” — and opens with Sviatoslav Hordynskyi’s major study “Bohdan Ihor Antonych, His Life and Work.” The illustrative section features an oil portrait of the poet by Volodymyr Lasovskyi (1936), a portrait from the posthumous collection “The Green Gospel,” a caricature drawn by Lasovskyi for a literary evening poster in Sokal in 1937, and a photograph of Antonych from the time of the publication of “Three Rings.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBohdan Ihor Antonych (1909–1937) was a poet born in Lemko Land who died in Lviv before reaching twenty-eight; during his lifetime, he published three collections. Sviatoslav Hordynskyi (1906–1993) was a painter, poet, and critic who knew Antonych personally; Bohdan Rubchak (1935–2018) was a poet of the New York Group and literary scholar; Yakiv Hnyzdovskyi (1915–1985) was a graphic artist whose tree on the cover became a recognizable emblem of this edition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was funded by the Organization for the Defense of Lemko Land in America and dedicated to the memory of the poet who, as stated in the dedication, immortalized his smaller homeland — Lemko Land — in his works. The book was printed by Winnipeg-based Trident Press. In Soviet-era Ukraine in that same year, 1967, only a selection of Antonych’s poetry was published, so for decades this New York collection remained the most complete available edition of his works. The print run was sold primarily to members of the organization.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589839696243,"sku":"SKU-00350","price":11500.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528949612915.jpg?v=1793985209"},{"product_id":"stus-vasyl-doroha-boliu-kyiv-1990","title":"Stus Vasyl. The Road of Pain: Poems. Kyiv, 1990","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“To arrive—and not to be lost—give me!”\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Stus. The Road of Pain: Poems \/ Edited by Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska; Edited by V. R. Kolomiyets; Artist V. Ya. Chebanyk.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eKyiv: Radyanskyi Pysmennyk, 1990. — 222 p., [32] p. ill. — Approx. 16.5 × 12 cm (70 × 100 1\/32 format). — Kyiv Book Factory “Zhovten”. Print run 48,000 copies. Price in binding 1 krb. 10 k. ISBN 5-333-00864-7.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublisher’s binding, paper-covered: front cover dark gray with the calligraphic inscription “Vasyl Stus,” reproduced in white and red; back cover cream, with the same inscription in black and the price marked. On the inside of the front cover is pasted a portrait photograph of the poet, on the back—a color illustration with a candle. Rubbing and white wear along the edges and corners of the covers, small foxing spots and soiling on the back cover, tears with paper loss in the upper part of the pasted photograph, paper tears along the back hinge. Paper with natural yellowing; block tight, clean. Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book has historical and cultural value and is of collector’s interest; the calligraphic design constitutes an independent artistic value.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book was compiled from surviving manuscripts and lists preserved by the poet’s relatives and friends—as stated directly in the annotation. The collection opens with the autobiographical note “A Few Words to the Reader,” dated Kyiv 1969, where Stus lists his favorite authors—Goethe, Svidzinskyi, Rilke, Ungaretti, Quasimodo—and refuses to call himself a poet: he considers himself a person who writes poems, and a poet, in his opinion, must first and foremost be a person. This is followed by selections from “Winter Trees” (1958–1969), late texts from the camp period, “The Training of M. H. Chernyshevsky,” and the editor’s afterword to “Passions for the Fatherland.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVasyl Stus (1938–1985) was a poet and human rights activist, member of the Ukrainian Helsinki Group. Arrested in 1972 and again in 1980, he died on the night of September 4, 1985, in the special-regime camp VS-389\/36 in the Urals. In Ukraine, his works were not published for a quarter of a century; his body was reburied in Kyiv at the Baikove Cemetery on November 19, 1989. The book’s editor Mykhailyna Kotsiubynska (1931–2007) was a literary scholar, a member of the Sixtiers, and the closest researcher of his legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe edition was submitted for production on March 27 and signed for printing on June 20, 1990—meaning it was prepared a few months after the reburial and belongs to the first books by Stus published in his homeland. The design was done by Vasyl Chebanyk (b. 1933)—a calligrapher and graphic artist, author of the project of the Ukrainian written form “Ruthenia”; the typographic compositions on the covers and dust jackets are not mere decoration here, but independent graphic works. The print run of 48,000 copies sold quickly, and the publisher’s binding with paper covering has not been well preserved, so copies with undamaged covers are rare.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"archivevam","offers":[{"title":"1","offer_id":64589839794547,"sku":"SKU-00351","price":800.0,"currency_code":"UAH","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0943\/7885\/2723\/files\/pr-15528949645683.jpg?v=1793989387"},{"product_id":"ukrainka-lesia-dosvitni-ohni-kyiv-1965","title":"Lesya Ukrainka. Dawn Lights: Poems and Narrative Poems. 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Condition: good.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSofia Karaffa-Korbut’s linocuts are of independent artistic interest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eINFORMATION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe collection includes selected lyric poems by Lesya Ukrainka (1871–1913) and three narrative poems: “Robert Bruce, King of Scots,” “The Ancient Tale,” and “The Vila-Sister.” The book’s main attraction is its illustrations: full-page two-color linocuts, each signed with a line from the poem that inspired it: “I will live!..”, “Your time will come to fight with destiny…”, “I will sow colorful flowers…”, “Dawn lights are already burning…”. Two color combinations—brick-red with black and turquoise with black—alternate throughout the book; the half-title, headbands, and endpapers are all engraved by the same hand.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSofia Karaffa-Korbut (1924–1996) was a Lviv-based graphic artist, ceramicist, and painter, a graduate of the Lviv Institute of Applied and Decorative Art (1953), and a member of the Union of Artists from 1958. She worked primarily in linocut, collaborating with Lviv’s Kamyan Yar from 1961 and Kyiv’s Veselka from 1964; according to researchers, she illustrated 66 books with a combined circulation of over six million copies. She returned repeatedly to Lesya Ukrainka: “Dawn lights” (1965, 1971, 1978), “The Beautiful Summer Has Passed” (1966, 1970), “The Bright Gemstones” (1971, 1975).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVeselka is a Kyiv children’s literature publishing house, founded in 1934 as the Children’s Publishing House of the Ukrainian SSR; it adopted its current name in 1964, one year before this book. The 1965 edition is the first of three, followed by reprints in 1971 and 1978. 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