{"product_id":"the-essential-poetry-of-bohdan-ihor-antonych-ecstasies-and-elegies-paperback-softback-9781684485307","title":"The Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych; Ecstasies and Elegies (Paperback \/ softback) 9781684485307","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Essential Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEcstasies and Elegies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-1937) (Author), Michael M. Naydan (Translated by), Lidia Stefanowska (Introduction by), Bohdan Ihor Antonych [1909-1937] (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781684485307\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 16 August 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e206 pages, 1 b-w image\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.254 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“In Ukraine, Antonych was and remains something akin to a poetic cult figure, first and foremost among younger poets. The striking innovativeness of his poetic mode of thinking has profoundly shaped the creative expressiveness of succeeding generations, including the most recent.” - Yuri Andrukhovych (Ukrainian poet, novelist, and essayist) “[Antonych’s] poems . . . deserve to be read alongside the work of his great contemporaries, such as Lorca and Mandelstam. It’s there that the poet’s metaphoric power comes fully into its own. Michael Naydan has done a major service in carrying over Antonych's dense, syntactically supple verse into English.” - Askold Melnyczuk (poet, novelist, and professor of English, University of Massachusetts at Boston) \" . . . as far as Naydan's selection is concerned, \u003ci\u003eThe Essential Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e is truly excellent and leaves almost nothing to be desired . . . a praiseworthy and important step in the process of introducing this major Ukrainian poet (still largely unknown in the West) to readers and scholars in the English-language world.\" (Journal of Ukrainian Studies) \"Between Arcadia and catastrophe-this is where the Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych fearlessly searched for the truth, 'the primeval word' that shapes the work of the most original literary explorers. Though his life was cut short in 1937, before he had reached the age of thirty, he produced a number of memorable poems, all of which live on in the musically rich translations of Michael Naydan. Longing to transcend his dark moment in history, Antonych was determined to find his 'home beyond a star,' in poems that reflect what he learned from translating Rilke, reading Whitman and Czeslaw Milosz, and imagining how 'the night heals everyone forever.' His ecstasies and elegies are indeed essential reading.\" - Christopher Merrill (author of On the Road to Lviv) “These translations bring us the intimate and ecstatic visions of a young poet as he steps onto the world stage. Through an archetypal animation of nature, where ‘woodpeckers strike green sparks from the trees,’ we follow Antonych, ‘a pagan in love with life,’ in search of ‘the primal word’-‘fire, a god, a bird, or a storm’-and by his exuberance, between ‘human fear and rapture,’ we are lead through his visionary journey, where ‘Sleepwalkers sing on the roofs, \/ landscapes turn silver, \/ walls in rooms rustle like the forest, \/ and the dead moon, the blue moon \/ opens five gates of night \/ above a black and glimmering city.’ These are magical poems.\" - James Brasfield (translator of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eLemko-Ukrainian poet Bohdan Ihor Antonych (1909-37) is not as well-known as Slavic modernist poets Mandelstam, Pasternak, and Milosz, or their Western European counterparts Eliot, Rilke, and Lorca, but he unquestionably should be. Sometimes compared to Walt Whitman and Dylan Thomas, Antonych, who described himself as “an ecstatic pagan, a poet of the high of spring,” created during his brief lifetime powerful and innovative poetry with astonishing metaphorical constructions. Born in the Lemko region of Poland, Antonych adopted Ukrainian as his literary language when he moved to Lviv, and virtually transformed the Ukrainian poetic landscape. This essential collection introduces Antonych’s work to new audiences, and includes a biographical sketch by the translator and a comprehensive introduction by Lidia Stefanowska, one of the world’s leading experts on this remarkable poet.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eAcknowledgments      \u003cbr\u003e A Note on the Translation     \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL M. NAYDAN\u003cbr\u003e A Biographical Sketch of the Poet     \u003cbr\u003e MICHAEL M. NAYDAN\u003cbr\u003e Between Creation and the Apocalypse: The Poetry of Bohdan Ihor Antonych   \u003cbr\u003e LIDIA STEFANOWSKA\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart I: From the Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Grand Harmony (1932–\u003cbr\u003e1933)     \u003cbr\u003e Musica Noctis\u003cbr\u003e De Morte I\u003cbr\u003e Ars Poetica II, 1\u003cbr\u003e Liber Peregrinorum 3\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart II: From the Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Three Rings: Long Poems and Lyrics (1934)\u003cbr\u003e Self-Portrait\u003cbr\u003e Three Rings\u003cbr\u003e An Elegy about a Singing Door\u003cbr\u003e An Elegy about the Keys to Love\u003cbr\u003e An Elegy about the Ring of a Song\u003cbr\u003e The Wedding\u003cbr\u003e The Country Tavern\u003cbr\u003e To the Wind\u003cbr\u003e A Landscape from a Window\u003cbr\u003e Goblets\u003cbr\u003e A Prince\u003cbr\u003e Maples\u003cbr\u003e The Village\u003cbr\u003e Christmas\u003cbr\u003e Kolyada\u003cbr\u003e The Green Gospel\u003cbr\u003e Primordial Summer\u003cbr\u003e The Snake\u003cbr\u003e The Forest\u003cbr\u003e An Elegy on the Ring of Night\u003cbr\u003e The Night\u003cbr\u003e A Late Hour\u003cbr\u003e Morning\u003cbr\u003e The Arrow\u003cbr\u003e Bitter Wine\u003cbr\u003e A Bitter Night\u003cbr\u003e A Night on St. George’\u003cbr\u003es Square\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart III: From the Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Book of the Lion (1936)\u003cbr\u003e The Sign of the Lion\u003cbr\u003e Daniel in the Lion’\u003cbr\u003es Den\u003cbr\u003e Ballad about the Prophet Jonah\u003cbr\u003e A Song about the Light before Time         \u003cbr\u003e The Samaritan Woman by the Well          \u003cbr\u003e Six Strophes of Mysticism\u003cbr\u003e Roses\u003cbr\u003e Carnations\u003cbr\u003e Peonies\u003cbr\u003e Tulips         \u003cbr\u003e Violets\u003cbr\u003e A Monumental Landscape\u003cbr\u003e The Square of Angels\u003cbr\u003e Apocalypse\u003cbr\u003e Starlion\u003cbr\u003e or The Constellation of the Lion\u003cbr\u003e Magicopolis\u003cbr\u003e or How Myths are Born\u003cbr\u003e Sands         \u003cbr\u003e The Round Dance  \u003cbr\u003e A Song on the Indestructibility of Matter\u003cbr\u003e A Prayer to the Stars\u003cbr\u003e Red Taffeta\u003cbr\u003e The Tale of a Black Regiment\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart IV: From the Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Green Gospel (1938)\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFIRST CHAPTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An Invitation\u003cbr\u003e To the Beings from a Green Star\u003cbr\u003e An Ecstatic Eight-Strophe Poem\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFIRST LYRIC INTERMEZZO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The First Chapter of the Bible\u003cbr\u003e Two Hearts\u003cbr\u003e A Portrait of a Carpenter\u003cbr\u003e The Fair\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSECOND CHAPTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The Sign of the Oak\u003cbr\u003e Duet\u003cbr\u003e The Garden\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSECOND LYRIC INTERMEZZO\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Bird Cherry Poem\u003cbr\u003e A Sermon to the Fish\u003cbr\u003e Carp\u003cbr\u003e Spring\u003cbr\u003e Cherry Trees\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHIRD CHAPTER\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Goldsea\u003cbr\u003e The Fleece\u003cbr\u003e A Prayer for the Souls of Drowned Girls\u003cbr\u003e Ambassadors of the Night\u003cbr\u003e To a Proud Plant, that is, to Myself\u003cbr\u003e The Lady of Diamonds\u003cbr\u003e The Home beyond a Star\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart V: From the Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Rotations (1938)\u003cbr\u003e Rotations\u003cbr\u003e Cities and Muses\u003cbr\u003e Ballad of the Alley\u003cbr\u003e Forever\u003cbr\u003e A Ballad on Azure Death\u003cbr\u003e The Bottom of Silence\u003cbr\u003e The End of the World\u003cbr\u003e The Concert from Mercury\u003cbr\u003e Dead Automobiles\u003cbr\u003e Trumpets of the Last Day\u003cbr\u003e Ending\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart VI: From Poetry not Published in Collections\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Lviv Elegy\u003cbr\u003e Green Faith\u003cbr\u003e A Prayer    \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePart VII: From the Collection\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e A Welcome to Life (1931)\u003cbr\u003e The Mad Fish\u003cbr\u003e The Stratosphere\u003cbr\u003e The Bee\u003cbr\u003e Autumn\u003cbr\u003e About a Strophe\u003cbr\u003e Autobiography\u003cbr\u003e A Welcome to Life\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e General Index\u003cbr\u003e Index of Poem Titles in English\u003cbr\u003e Index of Poem Titles in Latin and Ukranian\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Bucknell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand 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