description: This is a bilingual (Ukranian and English) anthology of poems from Ukrainian journalist and poet Vasyl Symonenko (1935- 1963). In his poems, Symonenko focuses on his personal life and a search for the self instead of the collective. Silence refers to the first half of his poetry: an intimate lyrical voice of meditative solitude that reflects on the nature, on life, as well as on personal relationships.The second half of the published collection-thunder, represents anger, even rage, over the inequalities in Soviet society and the systematic suppression of Ukrainian identity.…Symonenko was a true patriot at a time when Ukrainian patriotism was particularly dangerous in the USSR.Michael M. Naydan, Woskob Family Professor of Ukrainian Studies at The Pennsylvania State University
language: English
title: Silence and Thunder: The selected poetry of Vasyl Symonenko
publisher: Piramida, Lviv