The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Translated by the Author and James Brasfield (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications) Steve Ditko With an atmospheric setting and

With an atmospheric setting and a strong-willed heroine

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Using beautiful storytelling to relay traditional tales passed down through the generations

He recounts the triumphs and discomforts

she feels like she is just treading water and can't see any way out of the hole dug for her by a con artist who stole her identity

The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha: Translated by the Author and James Brasfield (Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute Publications) Steve Ditko With an atmospheric setting andOleh Lysheha is considered the "poets' poet" of contemporary Ukraine. A dissident and iconoclast, he was forbidden to publish in the Soviet Union from 1972 to 1988. Since then, his reputation has steadily grown to legendary proportions. His work is informed by transcendentalism and Zen like introspection, with meditations on the essence of the human experience and man's place in nature. James Brasfield studied poetry and translation with Joseph