Kogut, Zoya.Curly Smoke: Poems.New York, [1974] — author’s autograph

Zoya Kogyut. Curly Smoke: Poems / literary editor Bohdan Nyzhankovskyi; cover by Eduard Kozak.

New York: Slovo Publishing House of the Association of Ukrainian Writers, [1974]. — 120 pp.: portrait.

Published in a softcover with artwork by Eduard Kozak. The flyleaf bears an ink autograph: “God grant us all that is good! Zoya Kogyut 17.XI.1974.” The spine and bottom edge of the cover are rubbed, with a small tear near the spine; the text block is clean. Condition: good.

INFORMATION

Zoya Kogyut’s second collection, this time lyrical: poems about autumn, childhood, Ukraine, and life in Melbourne, with a portrait of the author and facsimile signature. The collection was edited by Bohdan Nyzhankovskyi, and the cover—a cigarette smoke and red faces—was created by Eduard Kozak.

The autograph is dated November 1974, around the time of the book’s publication; autographs by Australian diaspora authors are considerably rarer than those by American authors.