{"product_id":"the-selected-poetry-of-bohdan-rubchak-songs-of-love-songs-of-death-songs-of-the-moon-hardcover","title":"The Selected Poetry of Bohdan Rubchak: Songs of Love, Songs of Death, Songs of The Moon - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eBohdan Rubchak\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMichael M. Naydan\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eSvitlana Budzhak-Jones\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnly a handful of prominent émigré Ukrainian poet-scholar Bohdan Rubchak's poems have appeared in English translation prior to the publication of this volume. Rubchak died in 2018 at the age of 83 after publishing six collections of poetry, the last for which he received the prestigious Pavlo Tychyna Prize in Ukraine in 1993. Rubchak was part of the extremely talented displaced generation that escaped from the traumatic experiences of World War II to find a new life and creative inspiration in a new land. As an integral part of the New York Group of Ukrainian poets, his complex, at times seemingly cryptic poetry, makes the translator's task imposing.\u003c\/p\u003eHis poems are filled with meaning on multiple levels - semantic, syntactic, auditory, symbolic, and allusive. The volume, co-translated by Michael M. Naydan and Svitlana Budzhak-Jones, includes selections from all six of Rubchak's published collections of poetry: \u003cem\u003eThe Stone Garden\u003c\/em\u003e (1956), \u003cem\u003eThe Radiant Betrayal\u003c\/em\u003e (1960), \u003cem\u003eThe Girl without a Country\u003c\/em\u003e (1963), \u003cem\u003eA Personal Clio\u003c\/em\u003e (1967), \u003cem\u003eDrowning Marena\u003c\/em\u003e that appeared as part of \u003cem\u003eThe Wing of Icarus\u003c\/em\u003e (1983) selected works volume, and the expanded selected works edition \u003cem\u003eThe Wing of Icarus\u003c\/em\u003e (1991), which was the poet's only collection of poetry published in Ukraine.The book also contains an intimate and revealing biographical essay based on the poet's unpublished diaries by his wife of over fifty years Marian J. Rubchak, illuminating essays on his poetry by Svitlana Budzhak-Jones and Mykola Riabchuk, and a brief biographical essay and timeline by Michael M. Naydan, the editor of the volume.\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 180\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.56 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42719044337727,"sku":"9781912894857","price":32.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/c7ea6c2b9740611b6bab9d91d0551912.webp?v=1765084189","url":"https:\/\/dhl-adrianne.myshopify.com\/products\/the-selected-poetry-of-bohdan-rubchak-songs-of-love-songs-of-death-songs-of-the-moon-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}