{"product_id":"set-change-paperback-1","title":"Set Change - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eYuri Andrukhovych\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eOstap Kin\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator), \u003cb\u003eJohn Hennessy\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe first comprehensive English-language collection of one of the most important voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, a collection of poems about the region's history of violence as seen through geography, myth, and city life.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYuri Andrukhovych, one of the most significant voices in contemporary Ukrainian literature, began his career as a poet, producing three collections and two separately published poem cycles in the 1980s and '90s, the late Soviet and early post-Soviet period, a time of great political change and artistic revolution. \u003ci\u003eSet Change: Selected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e presents for the first time in English comprehensive selections from all three collections and both cycles. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn modern Ukrainian letters, Andrukhovych occupies a position similar to the literary giant Nikolai Gogol. While his influence is broad and significant, he is constantly reinventing himself as a writer: His work represents everything playful, free-spirited, and new, and epitomizes all the most original aspects of Ukrainian literature. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems collected here showcase the poet's prolonged quest for a representation of--and response to--the region's history of violence. In this quest Andrukhovych explores various settings and themes of geography, investigates the shifting borders of eastern Europe, and invokes a gamut of myths and fantastical elements set in the territory of present-day Ukraine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe cornerstone of his poems is a deep fascination with the idea of the city. Andrukhovych's vivid descriptions lend themselves to his investigations of the carnivalesque and the grotesque, two of the city's most significant aspects. His deep interest in the baroque, his obsession with verbal play and irony, the elegiac mode, the many hidden as well as overt allusions to other literary works and writers, and his need for textual experimentation are the elements that make his poems arresting, timely, and perpetually fascinating. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe poems in \u003ci\u003eSet Change\u003c\/i\u003e are translated by the award-winning duo of Ostap Kin and John Hennessy, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eYuri Andrukhovych\u003c\/b\u003e is a Ukrainian novelist, poet, and essayist. In the mid 1980s, he cofounded the poetical group Bu-Ba-Bu (Burlesque-Blaster-Buffoonery), which rebelled against socialist realism and instead promoted a new poetic ethos of aesthetic freedom and the ludic. Widely regarded as one of the most important figures in contemporary Ukrainian literature, he is the recipient of the 2014 Hannah Arendt Prize and the 2016 Goethe Medal. He lives in Ukraine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eOstap Kin\u003c\/b\u003e is a translator of Ukrainian poetry. He is the editor of \u003ci\u003eNew York Elegies: Ukrainian Poems on the City\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the American Association for Ukrainian Studies Prize for Best Translation, and his cotranslation with John Hennessy of Serhiy Zhadan's \u003ci\u003eA New Orthography\u003c\/i\u003e was a cowinner of the Derek Walcott Prize. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Hennessy\u003c\/b\u003e is a poetry editor at \u003ci\u003eThe Common \u003c\/i\u003eand the author of two poetry collections, \u003ci\u003eBridge and Tunnel \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eConey Island Pilgrims.\u003c\/i\u003e His fiction, poetry, and essays have appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Poetry 2013\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBeliever\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eHuffPost\u003c\/i\u003e. He teaches at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 6.93 x 4.41 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 26, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47353520685305,"sku":"9781681378848","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/RUNI8GdTeT9781681378848_3bffcdc0-fd24-492b-a281-a52f569d6c02.webp?v=1769825073","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/set-change-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}