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“alexander korotko”

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  • Stus

    A Narrative Poem (Quadrilingual edition)

    by Alexander Korotko ...
    Translated by Olha Ilchuk, Michael Pursglove ...
    This narrative poem is about the legendary figure of Ukrainian literature of the 20th century - the poet and dissident Vasyl Stus. The poet became a symbol of the indomitable Ukrainian spirit. His life and his poems today are perceived as part of the narrative of Ukrainian resistance to imperial aggression and dictatorship. Stus continued the line of spiritual resistance established by Taras ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Bera and Cucumber

    by Alexander Korotko ...
    Translated by Michael Pursglove ...
    Bera and Cucumber is a series of eight linked short stories. The links between them are manifold and include emigration to Israel and elsewhere, the Old Testament, and the sea. However, by far the main connection is the cosmopolitan city of Odesa, specifically the Jewish quarter, with its many and varied inhabitants and their professions, both legal and illicit. There are also many references to ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • War Poems

    by Alexander Korotko ...
    Translated by Andrew Olha Ilchuk Sheppard, Olha Ilchuk ...
    Shortly after Russia's invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, author and poet Alexander Korotko began to express his tumultuous emotional, philosophical, and human responses to the ensuing war through poetry. In this volume, we find 88 poems, completed in just under 100 days, that capture the relentless wail of sirens, the experience of seeking refuge in cellars and tunnels, and the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Audiobook

    Stus

    A Narrative Poem

    by Alexander Korotko ...
    Narrated by Michael Pursglove ...

    Unabridged

    28 min

    Vasyl Stus wrote poems in the labour camps of the Soviet system and died there in 1985. He had refused to recant, refused to be silent, refused every arrangement that would have shortened his sentence at the cost of his conscience. In the decades since, he has become something larger than a biography: a symbol of the indomitable Ukrainian spirit, and a direct heir to the line of spiritual ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD