Tag: Ukrainian Poetry
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The Sin of Great and Yet Untimely Bliss — Lina Kostenko
The fourth poem in Three Hundred Poems by Lina Kostenko, page 9. Originally untitled.
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A Song Is What I’d Like to Be — Lesya Ukrainka
Found on page 80 of The Broken Wing of Hope by Lesya Ukrainka. Originally untitled.
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With Your Eyes You Said — Lina Kostenko
The third poem in Three Hundred Poems by Lina Kostenko, page 8. Originally untitled.
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To Slake My Thirst Upon Your Voice — Lina Kostenko
The second poem in Three Hundred Poems by Lina Kostenko, page 7. Originally untitled.
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Hold Me Back — Lina Kostenko
The first in a book of Lina Kostenko poems on my shelf. Found on page 6 of Three Hundred Poems. No title in the book, so the first line is used for one here.
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Take — Serhiy Zhadan
Published in June of 2014 amid the war in Donbas, Ukraine. In 2022, I read my translation of this poem at a rally for Ukraine in State College, Pennsylvania. It was printed in the Centre Daily Times coverage of the event.