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The Selected Poetry of Bohdan Rubchak: Songs of Love, Songs of Death, Songs of The Moon (in English)
Bohdan Rubchak
(Author)
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Michael M. Naydan
(Translated by)
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Svitlana Budzhak-Jones
(Translated by)
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Glagoslav Publications B.V.
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The Selected Poetry of Bohdan Rubchak: Songs of Love, Songs of Death, Songs of The Moon (in English) - Rubchak, Bohdan ; Naydan, Michael M. ; Budzhak-Jones, Svitlana
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Synopsis "The Selected Poetry of Bohdan Rubchak: Songs of Love, Songs of Death, Songs of The Moon (in English)"
Only a handful of prominent émigré Ukrainian poet-scholar Bohdan Rubchak's poems has appeared in English translation prior to the publication of this volume. Rubchak died in 2018 at the age of 83 after publishing six collections of poetry, the last for which he received the prestigious Pavlo Tychyna Prize in Ukraine in 1993. Rubchak was part of the extremely talented displaced generation that escaped from the traumatic experiences of World War II to find a new life and creative inspiration in a new land. As an integral part of the New York Group of Ukrainian poets, his complex, at times seemingly cryptic poetry, makes the translator's task imposing.His poems are filled with meaning on multiple levels - semantic, syntactic, auditory, symbolic, and allusive. The volume, co-translated by Michael M. Naydan and Svitlana Budzhak-Jones, includes selections from all six of Rubchak's published collections of poetry: The Stone Garden (1956), The Radiant Betrayal (1960), The Girl without a Country (1963), A Personal Clio (1967), Drowning Marena that appeared as part of The Wing of Icarus (1983) selected works volume, and the expanded selected works edition The Wing of Icarus (1991), which was the poet's only collection of poetry published in Ukraine.The book also contains an intimate and revealing biographical essay based on the poet's unpublished diaries by his wife of over fifty years Marian J. Rubchak, illuminating essays on his poetry by Svitlana Budzhak-Jones and Mykola Riabchuk, and a brief biographical essay and timeline by Michael M. Naydan, the editor of the volume.
