{"product_id":"pavlo-tychyna-the-complete-early-poetry-collections-9781911414209","title":"Pavlo Tychyna: The Complete Early Poetry Collections","description":"\u003cp\u003ePavlo Tychyna (1891-1967) is arguably the greatest Ukrainian poet of the twentieth century and has been described as a \"tillerman's Orpheus\" by Ukrainian poet and literary critic Vasyl Barka. With his innovative poetics, deep spirituality and creative word play, Tychyna deserves a place among the pantheon of his European contemporaries such as T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Rainer Maria Rilke, Federico Garcia Lorca, and Osip Mandelstam. His early collections \u003cem\u003eClarinets of t\u003c\/em\u003ehe \u003cem\u003eSun\u003c\/em\u003e (1918), \u003cem\u003eThe Plow\u003c\/em\u003e (1920), \u003cem\u003eInstead of Sonnets and Octaves\u003c\/em\u003e (1920), \u003cem\u003eThe Wind from Ukraine\u003c\/em\u003e (1924), and his poetic cycle \u003cem\u003eIn the Orchestra of the Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e (1921) mark the pinnacle of his creativity and poetically document the emotional and spiritual toll of the Revolution of 1917 as well as the Civil War and its aftermath in Ukraine. Tychyna coined the term \"Clarinetism\" to describe his earliest works, which intrinsically exhibit the clarity and the haunting sound of a clarinet. He harkens back to ancient Greek literature to form what has been called the \"tragic lyric\" in his short collection \u003cem\u003eInstead of Sonnets and Octaves\u003c\/em\u003e, which gives a personal, humanistic understanding to the tragic events of the Revolution. John Fizer has noted Tychyna's close affinity with Walt Whitman's cosmism, particularly in his cycle \u003cem\u003eIn the Orchestra of the Cosmos\u003c\/em\u003e. While Tychyna in may ways displays the moral conscience of his times in his early works, later in his life he acquiesced to Soviet authorities in order to survive the horrors of Stalin's regime. He was forced by authorities to refuse a nomination for the Nobel Prize, the only reason for which would have been his Ukrainian ethnicity. This edition of Tychyna's complete early works includes translations of all his major early collections as well as his poetic masterpieces \"Mother was Pealing Potatoes,\" \"Funeral of My Friend,\" and his highly patriotic \"In Memory of the Thirty.\" The volume includes a guest introduction by eminent Ukrainian poet Viktor Neborak.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated by Michael M. Naydan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Glagoslav Publications B.V.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/29\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781911414209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 210\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.69lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.48d","brand":"Pavlo Tychyna","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42870626746549,"sku":"9781911414209","price":22.09,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_a42b1187-8659-4556-9376-0354758d1768.jpg?v=1684270971","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/pavlo-tychyna-the-complete-early-poetry-collections-9781911414209","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}