Пісні для мертвого півня

by Yuri Andrukhovych, Юрій Андрухович

Yuri Andrukhovych emerged as a prominent voice in Ukrainian literature with the publication of his first book of poems in 1985. The same year, together with Oleksandr Irvanets and Viktor Neborak, he formed the poetic group Bu-ba-bu, which became a leading force in Ukrainian poetic innovation for nearly a decade. After publishing only prose for a number of years, Andrukhovych returned to poetry in great form but with a much-changed poetics in 2004, with the publication of another collection. A comprehensive selection of his poetry from the 1980s-1990s, titled Lysty v Ukrainu (Letters to Ukraine), came out in 2013; in it, Andrukhovych revisited and revised several of those texts. This book traces the evolution of his poetics from the 1980s onward.

Genres: Poetry, Ukraine

96 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

See also:
UKR Юрій Андрухович
BLG/RU Юрий Андрухович

Yuri Andrukhovych (13 March 1960, Ivano-Frankivsk) — is a contemporary Ukrainian writer, essayist, poet, translator and public figure. Among his most notable works are novels Рекреації (Recreations, 1992), The Moscoviad, (Московіада, 1993), Perverzion (Перверзія, 1996), Twelve circles (Дванадцять обручів, 2003), The Secret (Таємниця, 2003), and Justicia's lovers (Коханці юстиції, 2017).

Andrukhovych's biggest literary awards include:
* BBC Ukraine "Book of the Year" (2018) for novel «Justicia's lovers»

Reviews

[Pavlo]

"...одне з тисячі тимчасових
місць на землі,
куди ми ходили по їжу й вино
і нам було добре,
і тим часом ніхто не вмирав,
наче ніколи ніхто й не помре.
Наче такого взагалі не буває."

Вчора у Харкові помер Михайло Барбара, сьогодні я перечитую "Пісні для мертвого півня." Мертвий Півень, ясно, познайомив мене з Бу-Ба-Бу задовго до того, як я знав, що таке Бу-Ба-Бу.

You had to be there...

Потім ще може переслухаю котрийсь із альбомів.

[Cody Stetzel]

A work very concerned with struggle, and survival over perception. There is a rawness to the poems therein which yield a type of illicitness which makes the poems here both unique and anecdotal.