{"product_id":"set-change-9781681378848","title":"Set Change","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the region's history of violence as seen through geography, myth, and city life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYuri Andrukhovych, one of the most significant voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, began his career as a poet, producing three collections and two separately published poem cycles in the 1980s and '90s, the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period, a time of great political change and artistic revolution. \u003ci\u003eSet Change: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e presents for the first time in English comprehensive selections from all three collections and both cycles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn modern Ukrainian letters, Andrukhovych occupies a position similar to the literary giant Nikolai Gogol. While his influence is broad and significant, he is constantly reinventing himself as a writer: His work represents everything playful, free-spirited, and new, and epitomizes all the most original aspects of Ukrainian literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems collected here showcase the poet's prolonged quest for a representation of--and response to--the region's history of violence. In this quest Andrukhovych explores various settings and themes of geography, investigates the shifting borders of eastern Europe, and invokes a gamut of myths and fantastical elements set in the territory of present-day Ukraine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe cornerstone of his poems is a deep fascination with the idea of the city. Andrukhovych's vivid descriptions lend themselves to his investigations of the carnivalesque and the grotesque, two of the city's most significant aspects. His deep interest in the baroque, his obsession with verbal play and irony, the elegiac mode, the many hidden as well as overt allusions to other literary works and writers, and his need for textual experimentation are the elements that make his poems arresting, timely, and perpetually fascinating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSet Change\u003c\/i\u003e are translated by the award-winning duo of Ostap Kin and John Hennessy, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781681378848\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Yuri Andrukhovych","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44723191840949,"sku":"9781681378848","price":13.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_0e3afbdd-f253-4890-9865-fe5bde33acc2.jpg?v=1729006986","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/set-change-9781681378848","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}