Vortex: Vasyl Stus' Selected Early Poetry
Vortex: Vasyl Stus' Selected Early Poetry (Вибірка з творів поза збірками та збірок: Круговерть, Зимові дерева, Веселий цвинтар)
Author: Vasyl Stus
Translators: Bohdan Tokarsky, Nina Murray
Translation: Ukrainian to English
Vortex: Vasyl Stus’ Selected Early Poetry is the first professional book-length volume of Stus’ poetry in English translation. The book features more than a decade of Stus’ work, from his earliest texts to the period before his arrest by the KGB in 1972. A book of bold experimentation and virtuoso poetic versatility, Vortex captures Stus’ artistic evolution and the shifting political landscape of the USSR during a crucial period of the 1960s and early 1970s, juxtaposing existentialism and love lyric, expressionist metaphors and Ukrainian history, metaphysical depth, and the powerful energy of dissent.