This book examines the early poetry (1956–1971) of the Ukrainian/American writer Yuriy Tarnawsky, one of the founders of the New York Group of Ukrainian poets and a unique figure among Ukrainian writers with regard to his experiments with forms. Demonstrating the radical changes that occurred in his poetic style between the 1950s and 1970s, Maria Grazia Bartolini analyzes the relationship between these innovations and the similar shifts taking place in Western poetry and culture during the 1950s and 1960s, when new forms of expression and a new consciousness developed in the interstices between modernism and nascent postmodernism. The book provides the reader with a selection of unpublished materials from the Yuriy Tarnawsky Papers at the Bakhmeteff Archive of Columbia University.
Inhoudsopgave
Contents
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translations
Introduction
1. The New York Group and its Meta-Critical Discourse: Between Modernism and the New Avant-Garde
2. “Running Barefoot Home and Back”: The Life and Poetry of Yuriy Tarnawsky
3. In Sartre’s Shadow: Zhyttia v Misti and Existentialism
4. Rewriting Space: Idealizovana Biohrafiia (1964), Spomyny (1964), and Bez Espanii (1967)
5. The Path Toward Abstraction: Ankety (1967–68)
6. Ut Pictura Poesis: Object, Poetry, and Visual Arts after Ankety
7. The Poetics of Nothingness and the Death of the Subject
Epilogue
Appendix. Unpublished Poems (1954–55)
Bibliography
Index
Over de auteur
Maria Grazia Bartolini is Associate Professor of Medieval Slavic Culture and Slavic Linguistics at the University of Milan. Her research interests focus on modern and early modern Ukrainian literature, with particular attention to poetry, visual culture, and cultural history.
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