“Pavlo Tychyna; The Complete Poetry Collections,” by Pavlo Tychyna, translated by Michael M. Naydan. London: Glagoslav Publications, 2017. 204 pp. ISBN: 978-1-91141-420-9 (paperback), $22.65.
Pavlo Tychyna, with his innovative poetry, deep spirituality and creative wordplay, is one of the great Ukrainian poets of the 20th century. His early collections “Clarinets of the Sun,” “The Plow,” “Instead of Sonnets and Octaves” and “The Wind from Ukraine,” and his poetic cycle “In the Orchestra of the Cosmos” mark the pinnacle of his creativity and poetically document the emotional and spiritual toll of the revolution of 1917 as well as the civil war and its aftermath in Ukraine.