Evasive Shadow of Life
Selected Poems
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Edmonton, Toronto
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Text is in English translation and original Ukrainian. Volodymyr Svidzinsky (1885-1941) was one of the most prominent Ukrainian poets of his time and a virtuoso master of lyrical poetic miniatures. For a number of reasons, his poetic oeuvre was published in its entirety only quite recently and for many this publication proved to be an unexpected, even sensational discovery of a masterful, as if hitherto unknown, lyrical poet. Svidzinsky’s poetry represents a unique synthesis of classical poetic tradition, Ukrainian modernism, folkloric elements, and mythopoetic way of thinking. Seen by Soviet censors as completely incompatible with the obligatory Soviet “artistic method” of socialist realism, his poetry was, for decades, banned in the USSR and, thus, absent in the intellectual and cultural discourse in Ukraine.
