"Quiet spiders of the hidden soul" : Mykola (Nik) Bazhan's early experimental poetry

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Baz︠h︡an, Mykola Platonovych, 1904-1983, author

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"This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together major works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the most important Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. As he moved from futurism to neo...

"This bilingual Ukrainian-English collection brings together major works by Mykola (Nik) Bazhan, one of the most important Ukrainian poets of the twentieth century. As he moved from futurism to neoclassicism, symbolism to socialist realism, Bazhan consistently displayed a creative approach to theme, versification and vocabulary. Many poems from his three remarkable early collections (1926, 1927, and 1929) remain unknown to readers, both in Ukraine and the West. Because Bazhan was later forced into the straightjacket of officially sanctioned socialist realism, his early poetry has been neglected. This collection makes these outstanding works available for the first time"--

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