Inspired by the great Russian poets Blok, Pasternak, Akhmatova, and Mandestam, as well as by the French symbolists Baudelaire and Verlaine, her poetry nevertheless remains highly accessible to the Western reader. “Life for Bilotserkivets,” writes Gerard Rasch, “has an indestructible integrity, with a hint of a mystic unity in which the sacred and the profane, the rose and the worm, the stench of urine and the aroma of spring can exist side by side…”