A Violin from the Other Riverside (Lost Horse Press Contemporary Ukrainian Poetry Series) - Softcover

Dmytro Kremin (author)|Svetlana Lavochkina (translated By)|Taras Kremin (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798986571539

Publisher: WSU Press, 2023

Synopsis

A Violin from the Other Riverside is a dual-language collection by outstanding Ukrainian poet of the post-World War II generation, Dmytro Kremin (1953-2017). It is a philosophical bow strung with a Ukrainian timeline arrow: its nock in the prehistoric Pontic steppe, its fletching made of Scythia, Ancient Greece and Rome, its shaft of the Cossack lore. The arrow's sharp point is aimed at the warfare which Ukraine has been subjected to by Russian occupants since 2014. Passionate yet impartial, the Violin performs a complex tune of elements and temperaments, epic and drama, love and hate, universal and personal, wisdom and folly. Each poem is akin to a dictionary entry on Ukraine composed in complex and intellectually laden, yet colourful and virtuosic, light-footed verse. Kremin proved to be prophetic in his harbingering of Ukraine's martyrdom and glory as the world battlefield of darkness and light.

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About the Author

Dmytro Kremin (1953-2017) was an award-winning poet, journalist, essayist, translator, songwriter, civil activist, scholar, and one of the most prominent contemporary literary personalities of the post-World War II generation in Ukraine. Born and raised in a picturesque Transcarpathian village, Kremin started writing poetry at an early age. His student years were marked by literary experimentation and artistic resistance to the Brezhnev regime of mediocrity and conformism. Upon graduation, Kremin moved to Mykolayiv in the south of Ukraine, where he became one of the stalwarts of Ukraine's national and cultural revival. His work is famed for uniting history and modernity as well as intertwining ardour and objectivity in the portrayal of his homeland in its joys and sufferings. In 1999, Kremin was the recipient of the Taras Shevchenko Prize, the highest literary distinction in Ukraine.

Svetlana Lavochkina is a Ukrainian-born novelist, poet, and translator. She has lived in Germany since 1999. Her work has been published world-wide. Her novella, Dam Duchess, was chosen runner-up in the Paris Literary Prize. Her novel Zap was shortlisted for Tibor & Jones Pageturner Prize, London. Both books in German translation were published by Voland & Quist to national critical acclaim. Lavochkina's verse novel, Carbon, was published in 2020 by Lost Horse Press, USA. In 2022, Carbon in Ukrainian self-translation was announced as a prize-winner in the international Lviv Literary Prize, The Winged Lion.

Edition details

• Publisher: WSU Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 13: 9798986571539
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214